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Pandemic, and you can't argue with the impact of 2 million doses, but to carry on with your refresher course on immunology, every vaccine activates the two arms of the immune response, the b cells that activate antibodies in the t—cells that help attack infected cells. to carry on with the primary little bit, the key protection that we know of is how much neutralising antibody to make. the mrna vaccines do that best and it is thought to be the reason for their more effective performance in their more effective performance in the pandemic. as was mentioned, astrazeneca produces a slightly hig...

Vaccinated. yes, you are seeing breakthroughs, why we are recommending boosters in this population, but even just fully vaccinated who have not gotten a booster have lower rate of hospitalization than if they are unvaccinated alone. for general population who do not fit in the boxes where you are immunocompromised or suppressed, because of age or medical condition, you have to know, the antibodies may wane from the vaccines, your memory system produces b cells and t cells, they still are there and they are probably going to be there for years to come. so people start to get nervous the efficac...

Important risk factors for covid. one is his age, 84. he's at the very high end, and we know those people are much more vulnerable. second, as you point out, he had cancer, and third, he's a man, and men are at much higher risk of dying, especially in his age category. 58% of deaths in those people 65 to 84 are male even though they make up a minority of that age group. when it comes to multiple myeloma, it's a cancer of the cells, the b cells in the immune system that produce antibodies so they don't produce effective antibodies and they grow and grow. and when you treat someone for multiple ...

I just want to put that last screen back up. i mean, it's remarkable. if you got -- if you have j&j and then you decide to get another j&j as a booster. it's -- it benefits -- it's four-times improvement. but if you get the moderna, it's 76 times improvement and pfizer 35. i mean, that's incredible. >> right. and to be fair, antibody response is not the only measure of immune protection. you also have b cells and t cells that are involved in the immune response and the studies have not looked at effectiveness. as in they are not looking -- they are looking at how much do your antibodies increa...

76 times improvement and pfizer 35. i mean, that's incredible. >> right. and to be fair, antibody response is not the only measure of immune protection. you also have b cells and t cells that are involved in the immune response and the studies have not looked at effectiveness. as in they are not looking -- they are looking at how much do your antibodies increase? but not how well protected you are against covid-19 so it's not like the pfizer or moderna vaccines are many, many more times effective but you do get this very strong antibody response because antibody response is a correlate of immu...