{"id":122569,"date":"2021-05-14T00:24:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T07:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/delay-in-giving-second-jabs-of-pfizer-vaccine-improves-immunity"},"modified":"2021-05-14T00:24:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T07:24:07","slug":"delay-in-giving-second-jabs-of-pfizer-vaccine-improves-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/delay-in-giving-second-jabs-of-pfizer-vaccine-improves-immunity","title":{"rendered":"Delay in giving second jabs of Pfizer vaccine improves immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/delay-in-giving-second-jabs-of-pfizer-vaccine-improves-immunity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s decision to delay second doses of coronavirus vaccines has received fresh support from research on the over-80s which found that giving the Pfizer\/BioNTech booster after 12 weeks rather than three produced a much stronger antibody response.<\/p>\n<p>A study led by the University of Birmingham in collaboration with Public <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/health\">Health<\/a> England found that antibodies against the virus were three-and-a-half times higher in those who had the second shot after 12 weeks compared with those who had it after a three-week interval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s decision to delay second doses of coronavirus vaccines has received fresh support from research on the over-80s which found that giving the Pfizer\/BioNTech booster after 12 weeks rather than three produced a much stronger antibody response. A study led by the University of Birmingham in collaboration with Public Health England found that antibodies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}