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Dec 30, 2021 6 tweets 8 min read
📖NEW | Omicron pre-print🦠

Latest work by @cvrinfo reveals fundamental changes in the #Omicron variant. The study, led by @emcat1, uses laboratory experiments and real world infection data, and has three major findings👇

gla.ac.uk/researchinstit… 1. In laboratory tests, #Omicron is largely unaffected by the antibodies provided by two doses of #COVID19 #vaccine, but responses are significantly improved by a third dose #booster.