Columbia University’s David Ho put blood samples from people given the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines into lab dishes with the mutated virus. Vaccine-produced antibodies were much less potent.
“In these instances what you try to do is you make the assumption that everybody is operating in good faith,” said Ian Lipkin, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University.
Specialized psychosocial interventions—including meaning-centered psychotherapy—can greatly improve a cancer patient's quality of life and reduce suffering.
“We are really now in a race between the virus and the new variants, on one side, and on the other side the vaccine scale,” said Wafaa El-Sadr, a professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 120 million people in the United States may have been infected by SARS-CoV-2, according to researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health.
