Editor's comments:
I must say I was a little concerned last week when I was notified that I could receive a booster shot. When I went down there it was not the shot I had before Sinovac but another vaccine named AstraZeneca.
After reading this article I understand why!
My compliments to the nation government for not only organizing us to have vaccination as early as March of last year but continuing to provide another shot later and finally a booster shot less than a year.
From my observation of the world news few countries in the world including America have done so well.
Hats off to the federal government under present Jokowi and the Bali government under Gov. Wayne Koster. Keep up the great work
Sinovac regimen gets strong boost from Pfizer, AstraZeneca or J&J shots:
China-based Sinovac's vaccine uses an inactivated version of a coronavirus strain that was isolated from a patient in China.
A third booster dose of a COVID-19 vaccine made by AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech or Johnson & Johnson increases antibody levels significantly in those who have previously received two doses of Sinovac's CoronaVac shot, a study has found.
The study found that CoronaVac received the strongest boost from a viral vector or RNA shot, including against the Delta and Omicron coronavirus variants, researchers from Brazil and Oxford University said on Monday.
China-based Sinovac's vaccine uses an inactivated version of a coronavirus strain that was isolated from a patient in China. It is currently approved in more than 50 countries including Brazil, China, Argentina, South Africa, Oman, Malaysia, Indonesia and Turkey. read more
"This study provides important options for policymakers in the many countries where inactivated vaccines ... have been used," said Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group and study lead.
However, another study in December found that Sinovac's two-dose shot followed by a booster dose of Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine showed a lower immune response against the Omicron variant compared with other strains.
Viral vector vaccines such as the ones developed by AstraZeneca-Oxford (AZN.L) and J&J (JNJ.N) use a weakened version of another virus to deliver genetic instructions for making proteins from the virus against which protection is sought.
Pfizer (PFE.N) and BioNTech's (22UAy.DE) mRNA vaccines deliver a genetic transcript with instructions for making viral proteins to teach the body how to defend against infections.
A third dose of CoronaVac also increased antibodies, but the results were better when a different vaccine was used, according to the latest study that included 1,240 volunteers from the Brazilian cities of Sao Paulo and Salvador.
Antibody levels were low before the booster doses, with only 20.4% of adults aged 18-60 and 8.9% of adults aged over 60 having detectable levels of neutralising antibodies. These were seen to significantly increase across every booster vaccine regimen, according to the study, which was published in the Lancet medical journal on Friday.
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