Moderna COVID vaccine booster dose results in immune memory
A recent study presents evidence that a booster dose of the Moderna vaccine can induce a robust memory immune response against COVID-19.
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A recent study presents evidence that a booster dose of the Moderna vaccine can induce a robust memory immune response against COVID-19.
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Slightly hire because you are closer to now and then march and then april. but look at two things that really jump out. one is that march is actually the month people who got vaccinated that month seemed to have the highest protection. why would that be? people who got vaccinated in april, that would have been more recent, so why is march higher. i bring that up because you can start to see a little bit of the confusion. also you will appreciate this, those black lines in the middle of those bar graphs, they represent something known as confidence intervals, how confident are you that you are ...
Intervals, how confident are you in the number there. you can see that the confidence intervals overlap a lot which means that the data is pretty muddy there. and i think that's what the fda, you know, panel is going to have to sort of sift through. quickly, there was a study that came out of the new england journal of medicine. now that boosters were given in israel, what they found was 12 days, starting 12 days after, they seem to reduce the rate of confirmed infections by 11.3 times. rate of severe illness by close to 20 times. but again, 12 days after, is that enough time to really see if ...
It's hard for the layman to parse through it. explain what these studies show. >> yeah, i mean, you're going to see why this is a bit of a muddy issue here. unlike last year when the vaccine were being authorized, the data was pretty -- very, very clear then. but let me show you here. this is some data coming out of israel ministry of health. i think this bar graph makes the case. i hope you can see this well enough. basically this is broken down by month. people got vaccinated in january at the left, february, march, april. you see those graphs there. what you'd expect if the vaccine effectiv...