{"id":9952,"date":"2021-05-21T11:20:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T18:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9952"},"modified":"2021-05-24T11:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:22:20","slug":"infection-and-vaccine-induced-neutralizing-antibody-responses-to-the-sars-cov-2-b-1-617-1-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/21\/infection-and-vaccine-induced-neutralizing-antibody-responses-to-the-sars-cov-2-b-1-617-1-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Infection and Vaccine-Induced Neutralizing Antibody Responses to the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.1 Variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> An in-vitro study of neutralizing antibody response to the B.617.1 variant found that the variant was 6.8-fold more resistant to neutralization by sera from persons previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 (N=24) and individuals vaccinated with either the Pfizer-BioNTech (N=10) or Moderna (N=15) vaccines compared to a wild type strain. However, 79% of serum samples from persons previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and all those from vaccinated persons were still able to neutralize the virus, suggesting that mRNA vaccines will remain effective against this variant.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Edara et al. (May 10, 2021). Infection and Vaccine-Induced Neutralizing Antibody Responses to the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.1 Variant. Pre-print downloaded May 21 from: The Preprint Server for Biology. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.05.09.443299\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.05.09.443299<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] An in-vitro study of neutralizing antibody response to the B.617.1 variant found that the variant was 6.8-fold more resistant to neutralization by sera from persons previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 (N=24) and individuals vaccinated with either the Pfizer-BioNTech (N=10) or Moderna (N=15) vaccines compared to a wild type strain. However, 79% of serum&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/21\/infection-and-vaccine-induced-neutralizing-antibody-responses-to-the-sars-cov-2-b-1-617-1-variant\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[142,159],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-9952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-vaccine","tag-variants","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9953,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952\/revisions\/9953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9952"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}