And it suggests that booster shots could be key in the battle with the variant. The study, released Tuesday, found that even if the power of vaccines is diminished in the face of omicron, there’s still some protection afforded against the virus. But the findings of the study, which tested the omicron variant of the coronavirus against the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, aren’t entirely bleak. And people who have been vaccinated could suffer breakthrough infections. That means people who previously recovered from a bout of covid-19 could be reinfected. It eludes a great deal of the protection provided by disease-fighting antibodies.
The bad: This variant is extremely slippery.
The first in-depth laboratory study of the omicron variant of the coronavirus offers a mixed bag of bad news and good news. (Fox, 12/8)įirst Lab Results Show Omicron Has ‘Much More Extensive Escape’ From Antibodies Than Previous Variants It's the first experiment to directly look at how the Omicron virus might behave in vaccinated people. Boosters are also likely to protect people, Alex Sigal of the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban, who led the study team, told CNN. The Omicron coronavirus variant partly escapes the protection offered by the Pfizer vaccine, but people who have been previously infected and then vaccinated are likely to be well protected, researchers working in South Africa reported Tuesday. Omicron Variant Partly Evades Pfizer Vaccine's Protection, Study Shows The covid variant may elude some of the protections offered by antibodies and the Pfizer vaccine, but boosters may counter the virus.
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