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Antibodies from Sinovac's COVID-19 shot fade after about 6 months, booster helps: Study
FILE PHOTO: Bottles of the Sinovac vaccine are seen at a hospital, as Indonesia drives mass vaccination for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Jakarta, Indonesia, January 21, 2021. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan26 Jul 2021 10:45PM
BEIJING: Antibodies triggered by Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine decline below a key threshold from around six months after a second dose for most recipients, although a third shot could have a strong boosting effect, according to a lab study.
Chinese researchers reported the findings from a study of blood samples from healthy adults aged between 18 to 59 in a paper published on Sunday (Jul 25), which has not been peer reviewed.
For participants receiving two doses, two or four weeks apart, only 16.9 per cent and 35.2 per cent respectively still had a level of neutralising antibodies above the threshold six months after the second dose, the paper said.
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Those readings was based on data from two cohorts involving more than 50 participants each, while the study gave third doses to a total of 540 participants.When participants in some cohorts were given a third dose, about six months after the second, neutralising antibody levels after a further 28 days had increased around three to five fold from the levels seen four weeks after the second dose, the study showed.