From WSJopinion: The governors and President Biden are both playing to their political bases, but politicizing the virus isn’t helping the American people. Vaccines are the only way through the pandemic, writes The Editorial Board.
Most of the media and political class are absorbed by the mask debate, but the Food and Drug Administration is keeping the focus where it should be: vaccines. On Thursday the agency was close to approving Covid-19 booster shots for immuno-compromised patients, and more people will need them soon.
Vulnerable patients, such as those with cancer or who have received organ transplants, produce a weaker response to Covid vaccines. Afound that immuno-compromised patients who received an mRNA vaccine are only 59% protected against hospitalization. Studies have found that a third shot can substantially increase antibodies.
Neutralizing antibodies are the immune system’s front-line defense. Vaccines also elicit a B- and T-cell response that can help fight infections, but these immune cells can take longer to kick in for older people as well as when people get rundown. As antibodies naturally wear off over time from vaccination, people will become more likely to get sick with Covid.
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