India: Study finds big drop in COVID-19 antibodies within four months of vaccination

[Resurgence]

A study of 614 fully vaccinated health workers in India found a “significant” drop in their COVID-19-fighting antibodies within four months of the first shot.

The findings could help the Indian government decide whether to provide booster doses as some Western countries have done.

Waning antibodies do not necessarily mean that immunised people lose their ability to counter the disease, as the body’s memory cells may still kick in to offer substantial protection, said the director of a state-run institute that did the study.

“After six months, we should be able to tell you more clearly whether and when a booster would be needed,” Sanghamitra Pati of the Regional Medical Research Centre, based in the eastern city of Bhubaneswar, told Reuters on Tuesday.

“And we would urge similar studies in different areas for pan-India data.”

British researchers said last month that protection offered by two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech and the AstraZeneca vaccines begins to fade within six months.

The Indian study, published in the Research Square pre-print platform but yet to be peer reviewed, is one of the first such done in the country involving its main two vaccines - Covishield, a licensed version of the AstraZeneca shot, and domestically developed Covaxin.

Health officials say though they are studying the evolving science on booster doses, the priority is to fully immunise India’s 944 million adults. More than 60% of them have received at least one dose and 19% the required two doses.

COVID cases and deaths in India have come down sharply since a peak of more than 400,000 infections in early May. India has reported 33.29 million cases in total and 443,213 deaths.



https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/in...1.82252432

[waregim]

Basically 210 days. After which they fall below the balance with non-neutralizing antibodies, and the virus starts to infect monocytes .

RNA virii are very ancient and life developed protections against them around a billion years before the evolution of the humoral immune system (B cell antibodies) . They are properly the domain of the cellular immune system (monocytes and others) .

There are no effective RNA virus vaccines in existence. If they existed, the common cold would have been cured 60 years ago.

All the vaccines do is to damage the cellular immune system.

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Addendum:
This is not to infer that all vaccines are bad.

Properly designed, vaccines are excellent for bacterial and DNA viral infections.
Though historically it is sanitation, diet and hygiene that have eliminated most disease with vaccines as a mop up function.

[Aw-]

[pillowtalk]

I think they need to find a more effective solution.