Author Interviews, COVID -19 Coronavirus, Vaccine Studies / 10.02.2022
COVID-19: Immune Response at One Year Differs Between Vaccinated and Recovered Patients
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Carmit Cohen, PhD, MDV – Laboratory manager
Infection Prevention and Control UNIT
Sheba Medical Center
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: We, Professor Regev-Yochay research group, began this study when the first COVID-19 patients were diagnosed in Israel. We followed humoral immune response kinetics of recoverees in the first year of the pandemic for a year (before the introduction of the Delta variant) and compared them to a matched cohort of two doses Pfizer vaccinated that was followed for up to eight month (until they received the third dose).
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