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- As more contagious COVID variants spread across the US, Pfizer is exploring the utility of a third booster dose.
- Pfizer hopes that a third vaccine dose might "raise the antibody response 10 to 20 fold."
- Pfizer and Moderna are planning to boost vaccine production and ship 140 million doses to the US over the next 4.5 weeks.
Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine is 95% effective at preventing a COVID infection, a startling figure that even surprised the company's team of researchers. Still, with more contagious variants from the UK and South Africa already spreading in the US, Pfizer is currently researching what type of impact a third booster dose would have on the immune system response to COVID. Currently, Pfizer's vaccine requires the administration of two doses set three weeks apart.
According to Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, researchers are hoping that a third booster shot could "raise the antibody response 10 to 20 fold."
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It turns out we might need 3 coronavirus vaccine shots instead of 2 – here’s why originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 26 Feb 2021 at 17:23:31 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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