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Editorial: COVID: More reasons to get vaccinated

Yahoo News (The Free Press), May 30, 2021

May 30, 2021

Editorial: COVID: More reasons to get vaccinated

A large scale study completed last month by University of California, Irvine, researchers last month showed that mRNA vaccines like Moderna and Pfizer provided 10 times the antibodies than immunity gained from simply having COVID. The study also showed that the vaccines will also be able to attack new variants of the coronavirus, something that cannot be achieved with natural immunity from having COVID.