Pfizer vaccine appears effective against British virus variant — study

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/pfizer-vaccine-appears-effective-against-british-virus-variant-study/

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> Pfizer vaccine appears effective against British virus variant
> The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine appears to be effective against the new, more infectious coronavirus variant that was first detected in Britain and has since been found in dozens of countries, according to two preliminary studies released Wednesday.
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> "Our results suggest that the majority of vaccine responses should be effective against the B.1.1.7 variant," concluded researchers from Britain and the Netherlands in one of the studies.
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> A separate preliminary study by researchers from BioNTech and Pfizer also found their vaccine to be effective against the B.1.
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> They compared the neutralizing effect of plasma from 16 participants in their vaccine clinical trials against the British variant and the original virus that emerged in Wuhan, China, in late 2019.
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> 1.7 variant could escape the immune protection of the vaccine.
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> In previous preliminary research from Pfizer/BioNTech released earlier this month, scientists found the vaccine was effective against a mutation, N501Y, common to the virus variants found in Britain, South Africa and Brazil.
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> Ran Balicer, head of the expert panel that advises Ash speculated to Ynet Wednesday that the British variant would become the main strain in Israel in a matter of weeks.

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