Israeli Trial Shows 4th Pfizer Dose Insufficient To Ward Off Omicron
The Straits Times|January 19, 2022
A fourth dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was insufficient to prevent infection with the Omicron variant of Covid-19, according to preliminary data from a trial in Israel.
Israeli Trial Shows 4th Pfizer Dose Insufficient To Ward Off Omicron

Two weeks after the start of the trial of 154 medical personnel at the Sheba Medical Centre in Tel Aviv, researchers found that the vaccine raised antibody levels. But that offered only a partial defence against Omicron, according to Dr Gili Regev-Yochay, the trial’s lead researcher.

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