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(CNN) New research out this week provides reassuring evidence that people vaccinated against coronavirus will be protected against emerging new variants of the virus.
Two teams tested two of the new variants against blood taken from people who had received the full two-course dose of either the Moderna or the Pfizer vaccine.
While the mutations in the new variants of the virus — one first seen in Britain, and another first identified in South Africa — did allow them to evade some of the immunity induced by vaccination, it was far from a complete escape, the two teams reported separately.
A team led by Dr. Michel Nussenzweig of the Rockefeller University tested plasma taken from 20 people who got two doses of either the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna vaccine as part of clinical trials.
They found the vaccines produced strong antibody responses, as well as cells that keep producing new antibodies for months or years. “We measured their antibody responses to the wild-type virus. Then we took their plasmas and measured them against the variants,” Nussenzweig told CNN.
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