Here is what we know about how variants respond to jabs.Several lab tests show that the Delta variant seems to have stronger resistance to vaccines than other variants do.
A French study from the Pasteur Institute concluded that neutralising antibodies produced by vaccination with the Pfizer/BioNTech jab are three to six times less effective against the Delta variant than against the Alpha variant.Although they represent an essential marker, the levels of antibodies measured in a lab are not enough to determine the efficacy of a vaccine.
Previous data released by British health authorities at the end of May come to similar conclusions for less serious forms of the illness. For the others, lab and real-world tests both conclude that one dose of any vaccine only gives limited protection against the Delta variant. In the UK -- where the Delta variant is now responsible for 96 percent of new cases -- these findings pushed the government on Monday to reduce the waiting period between doses from 12 weeks to eight for people over 40.
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