BA.2.86 Omicron variant: Is our immunity under siege?
A new preprint posted to the bioRxiv server discusses whether this variant shows neutralization escape.
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A new preprint posted to the bioRxiv server discusses whether this variant shows neutralization escape.
In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers evaluated the neutralization evasion of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron sublineages.
On the right hand part of the slide, one month after the third dose, take a look now again at the purple bar. it has gone up substantially from the six which is circled on the left to 154. again, this is one of a number of representative studies. next slide. another study from the rockefeller university in new york funded by the national institute of allergy and infect, diseases, again, showing that omicron exhibits a rather profound degree of neutralization escape, looking at the low levels of the blue triangles on the left part of the panel. however, the two-dose mrna vaccinated people who r...