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Variant identified in South Africa may evade Pfizer vaccine, Israeli study suggests

A look at how the Pfizer vaccine is performing in the real-world suggests it may not be as effective against the coronavirus variant that was first discovered in South Africa. A recently released ...
WPTV-TV

Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine protects for at least 6 months, effective against variants

Newly released data from Pfizer/BioNTech’s ongoing study of their COVID-19 vaccine suggests it is effective at preventing serious symptoms and death at least six months after vaccination. The ...
Metro US

Pfizer vaccine only slightly less effective against key South African mutations – study

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Pfizer Inc and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine appeared to lose only a small bit of effectiveness against an engineered virus with three key mutations from the new coronavirus variant ...
KTVU

Omicron variant is milder but better at evading vaccines, South African data indicates

JOHANNESBURG - The omicron variant appears to cause less severe disease than previous versions of the coronavirus, and the Pfizer vaccine seems to offer less defense against infection from it but ...
Metro US

Factbox: What we know about the South African variant of COVID-19

(Reuters) – South Africa halted the planned rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University after data showed it gave minimal protection against mild infection from one ...
Santa Monica Daily Press

Study suggests Pfizer vaccine works against virus variant

New research suggests Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine can protect against a mutation found in the two more-contagious variants of the coronavirus that have erupted in Britain and South Africa. The study was ...