Major Study: COVID-19 Vaccines Less Effective Against Delta, as Good as ‘Natural Infection’

Major Study: COVID-19 Vaccines Less Effective Against Delta, as Good as ‘Natural Infection’
A young woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine at the Bahrain International Exhibition and Convention Center in Manama, Bahrain on Dec. 24, 2020. Mazen Mahdi/AFP via Getty Images
Jack Phillips
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The effectiveness of widely used COVID-19 vaccines against the Delta strain becomes weaker within three months of inoculation, said a study from Oxford University, which also said that two doses of the vaccine provided as much protection as “having had COVID-19 before through natural infection.”

The preprint survey, carried out by the University of Oxford and the Office for National Statistics and published on Aug. 19, looked at more than 3 million PCR tests across the UK from a random sample of people as the Delta variant became widespread this year. COVID-19 is the illness caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, known as the coronavirus.
Jack Phillips
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