[JPost] - Taking a third dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine boosts the immunity of recipients nearly tenfold compared to those who received only two doses of the vaccine more than five [months] prior, according to a report published Wednesday by Israeli researchers in the New England Journal of Medicine.
A version of the study had been previously published and reported on, though not peer-reviewed, at the beginning of the month on the online research hub MedRxiv.
The rate of confirmed infections was more than 10 times lower among people who received the booster compared to people who did not. The rate of severe infection 19 times lower.
the URL of the New England Journal of Medicine is https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2114255 |