Forget the booster: Study shows Pfizer, Moderna vaccines create durable immunity from COVIDForget the booster: Study shows Pfizer, Moderna vaccines create durable immunity from COVIDHow durable? Durable enough that otherwise healthy people might not need a booster unless and until there’s a diabolical new variant capable of punching through the current vaccines. Immunity against the current variants shouldn’t fade, if this new study is accurate. If the B.1.617 “Delta” strain is as bad as SARS-CoV-2 gets, those of us who’ve been vaccinated might truly be done with preventive measures.
And those who’ve recovered from COVID and then gotten vaccinated may have so much damned immunity that they won’t need a booster even if something scarier comes down the pike.
This Times story is a sequel to one from last month about a study of people who had the virus and later got vaxxed. Scientists who examined their immune response found that the “memory B cells” produced by infection and later boosted by a dose of vaccine were extremely potent. Not only that, but those B cells evolved over time, proving that the body’s defenses might be as adaptable as the virus itself is. And even people who’d been infected and didn’t get vaccinated later still had some natural immunity from SARS-CoV-2 a year later.
WRT Pfizer and Moderna, to date, variants are a straw dog being used by Dems and the MSM - repetitive and redundant, I know - to try to keep people in a state of panic.
From what I've seen elsewhere, J&J and Novavax also have substantial effectiveness across the full spectrum of known major variants. Neither use mRNA technology, and they also use different technologies from each other. Novavax has not yet requested EUA.
