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Old 22-05-2021, 12:38   #5241
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Re: Coronavirus

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Originally Posted by Carth View Post
Hasn't two jabs always been shown to provide better protection than one?

Yet another non story involving data, statistics and experts
It wasn’t known if it was the same with variants - good science means you check and confirm when something changes, for consistency of results.

In this case, it showed that while the vaccine is still effective against the new variant, it’s not as effective.
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Two vaccine doses provided 81 per cent protection against the B.1.617.2 variant found in India, and 87 per cent against the B.1.1.7 strain first identified in Kent in south-east England
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