{"id":127163,"date":"2021-09-03T09:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T16:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/covid-19-research-quantifies-antibody-response-to-pfizer-moderna-vaccines"},"modified":"2021-09-03T09:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T16:22:18","slug":"covid-19-research-quantifies-antibody-response-to-pfizer-moderna-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/covid-19-research-quantifies-antibody-response-to-pfizer-moderna-vaccines","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Research Quantifies Antibody Response to Pfizer, Moderna Vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/covid-19-research-quantifies-antibody-response-to-pfizer-moderna-vaccines2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine quantifies the antibody response generated by the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines. The findings are some of the earliest to compare the two vaccines\u2019 antibody responses head-to-head. The notable finding was that antibody levels in recipients of the Moderna vaccine were slightly higher than in recipients of Pfizer.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers caution against drawing conclusions about the vaccines\u2019 effectiveness based on the antibody numbers. Both vaccines, they say, have performed exceptionally after having been given to millions of people around the world. The new results are just a small piece in a much larger puzzle as scientists seek to determine if one vaccine may be superior for certain demographics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing that will be interesting is figuring out if measuring antibody levels ends up being a good marker of vaccine protection,\u201d UVA immunologist Dr. Jeffrey Wilson said. \u201cAt the moment, we don\u2019t know for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The UVA study offers insights into vaccine recipients\u2019 immune response by age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine quantifies the antibody response generated by the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines. The findings are some of the earliest to compare the two vaccines\u2019 antibody responses head-to-head. The notable finding was that antibody levels in recipients of the Moderna vaccine were slightly higher than in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127163","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}