Another knock down paper from South Africa! This time 501Y.V2 (B.1.351) is giving again good news with confirming that neutralise other lineages but also another VOC, the P1.
SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2 (B.1.351) elicits cross-reactive neutralizing antibodies biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2 (B.1.351) elicits cross-reactive neutralizing antibodies biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
We observed no significant difference in the magnitude of binding (Figure 1A) or neutralizing (Figure 1B) responses between the 501Y.V2 cohort and the wave 1 (i.e. B.1 original lineages) admission samples. 
Plasma binding antibodies in 501Y.V2 infected individuals are cross-reactive.
Probably, the most important results is how the 501Y.V2 neutralise well the D601G original lineages but stronger the P1 variant... It points to a direction that 501Y.V2 may cross neutralise to other variants of concerns (VOCs).
Fantastic team work in South Africa on the genotype-to-phenotype in real time by @NICD @krisp_news @WitsUniversity @IIDMM
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