Friday, October 15, 2021

Predominance of antibody-resistant SARS-CoV-2 variants in vaccine breakthrough cases from the San Francisco Bay Area, California/ UCSF lab

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.19.21262139v2

Fully vaccinated were more likely than unvaccinated persons to be infected by variants carrying mutations associated with decreased antibody neutralization (L452R, L452Q, E484K, and/or F490S) (78% versus 48%, p = 1.96e-08), but not by those associated with increased infectivity only (N501Y) (85% versus 77%, p = 0.092). 

Differences in viral loads were non-significant between unvaccinated and fully vaccinated persons overall (p = 0.99) and according to lineage (p = 0.09 – 0.78). 

Viral loads were significantly higher in symptomatic as compared to asymptomatic vaccine breakthrough cases (p < 0.0001), and symptomatic vaccine breakthrough infections had similar viral loads to unvaccinated infections (p = 0.64). 

In 5 cases with available longitudinal samples for serologic analyses, vaccine breakthrough infections were found to be associated with low or undetectable neutralizing antibody levels attributable to immunocompromised state or infection by an antibody-resistant lineage. 

Taken together, our results suggest that vaccine breakthrough infections are overrepresented by circulating antibody-resistant SARS-CoV-2 variants, and that symptomatic breakthrough infections may potentially transmit COVID-19 as efficiently as unvaccinated infections, regardless of the infecting lineage.

2 comments:

  1. I know that you know what you are doing Dotorre Nass but medRxiv is supported by (Priscilla) Chan and (Mark) Zuckerberg. Always be reading between their lines.

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  2. I think it's pretty obvious by now that the counter narrative is as controlled as the narrative and by the same people. Covid is just stage 1 of a 3 part plan. It's so obviously bullshit that the unveiling of it as a hoax has been planned all along

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