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by maxerickson 1966 days ago
Moderna vaccine than Pfizer due to the superior efficacy against strain variants

Is this known?

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That doesn't compare them.
It’s what I’m using to make my own personal decision, as I need to get a vaccine regardless.
Okay, but you should probably be more careful how you describe the information. For instance, you could state that you want the Moderna vaccine because of what they've said about effectiveness against emerging strains.

It's likely that the antibodies produced in response to the Pfizer vaccine have similar cross reactivity as the Moderna vaccine (because they cause production of the same spike protein, which is what the immune system reacts to).

And of course, Pfizer is also studying the situation:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-works-a...

Noted.