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Sky News presenter
Dec 7, 2021 7 tweets 4 min read
#BREAKING - Antibodies from the #Pfizer vaccine were up to 40 times less effective at neutralising #Omicron, than against the original #Covid strain…

- this is from a briefing from Alex Segal, South African scientist at the Africa Health Institute…
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These are initial results we’re from lab tests on the live #Omicron variant on plasma samples of people vaccinated twice with #Pfizer.
* the immune escape was about 5 to 10 times greater than for the Beta variant (previous vaccine busting record breaker)
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