Tue Jan 18, 2022 – 1:43 pm EST
TEL AVIV, Israel (LifeSiteNews) — The COVID-19 vaccine is simply “not good enough” to contain the spread of COVID’s omicron variant, an Israeli researcher said Monday about preliminary findings from a recent study.
“The vaccine, which was very effective against the previous strains, is less effective against the Omicron strain,” said Prof. Gili Regev-Yochay of Israel’s prestigious Sheba Medical Center, the Times of Israel reports. “We see an increase in antibodies, higher than after the third dose. However, we see many infected with Omicron who received the fourth dose. Granted, a bit less than in the control group, but still a lot of infections.”
“The bottom line is that the vaccine is excellent against the Alpha and Delta [variants], for Omicron it’s not good enough,” she said.
The report does not specify which of the COVID vaccines Regev-Yochay was referring to, but the New York Post reports that Sheba gave 154 medical workers the Pfizer shot and 120 the Moderna injection.
“Regev-Yochay added that it is still probably a good idea to give a fourth shot to those at higher risk, but intimated that perhaps the current campaign,
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