Pfizer says its updated COVID-19 booster significantly revved up adults' virus-fighting antibodies.
FILE- A Pfizer logo is shown at their global supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Mich., on Dec. 11, 2020. Pfizers updated COVID-19 booster significantly revved up adults virus-fighting antibodies, the company said Friday, Nov. 4, 2022 -- early findings from a rigorous study of the new shots.
Pfizer said people 55 and older who got the omicron-targeting booster had four-fold higher antibody levels than those given an extra dose of the original vaccine. A hint: A month after receiving the new booster, antibody levels in people 55 and older had jumped 13 times higher than before the extra dose. Younger adults saw a 9.5-fold jump, Pfizer and its partner BioNTech said. It had been about 11 months since the study participants’ last vaccination.
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