MEXICO CITY.- Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine generated more than twice as many antibodies as Pfizer, According to a study that compared the immune responses of the two substances.
the study, Which media outlets such as Bloomberg and Fox News realize, was conducted among 2,499 employees of a hospital in Belgium, Who received two doses already out of the vaccine Pfizer / BioNTech o de Modern. The researchers reviewed the levels of antibodies in the blood tests before the vaccination, i up to 10 weeks after applying the second dose.
Modern vaccine generates double antibodies
On average, the Modern vaccine generated an antibody level of 3,838 U / ml, compared to 1,444 U / ml of the vaccine Pfizer and, among participants who had not been infected with Covid-19, The researchers reported an antibody level of 2 thousand 881 U / ml in the case of Modern and one thousand 108 U / ml in the case of Pfizer.
The study authors suggested that the difference could lie in the higher mRNA content in the substance of Modern, And at the foot of the largest barrel that passes between the application of the first and second dose (four weeks in the case of Moderna, against three in the case of Pfizer).
Modern reduces hospitalizations
Another study, released by the Mayo Clinic, revealed that the Mayo vaccine Modern reduces hospitalizations related to Covid-19 at half the rate of hospitalizations for the virus from whom the vaccine was applied Pfizer. In this case, Fox News noted.
The authors of the study suggested that one of the factors that may have affected the fact that there are fewer hospitalized for the disease among those who used the vaccine Modern is that “each dose of mRNA-1273 (Modern) Provides three times more mRNA copies of the peak protein than BNT122b2 (Pfizer) “, which could result in a more effective immune response.