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Two doses required: AstraZeneca and Pfizer protect against Indian variant – The New Daily
The Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines are “highly effective” against symptomatic disease from the so-called Indian variant.
The Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines are “highly effective” against symptomatic disease from the so-called Indian variant coronavirus but only after two doses, a study has found.
Both vaccines are 33 per cent effective against the Indian variant three weeks after the first dose.
But following a second dose, protection against the B.1.617.2 Indian variant improved dramatically.
The Pfizer vaccine was found to be 88 per cent effective at stopping symptomatic disease from the Indian variant two weeks…
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