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How well can Omicron evade immunity from COVID vaccines?

New findings pinpoint the likelihood that people who get a breakthrough infection have Omicron rather than Delta.
  1. Sara Reardon

    1. Sara Reardon is a freelance science writer in Bozeman, Montana.

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People who become infected with SARS-CoV-2 after three doses of COVID-19 vaccine are much more likely to have the Omicron variant than the Delta variant, owing to Omicron’s ability to evade the immune system, according to US data.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00283-4

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  1. Chaguza, C. et al. Preprint at medRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.22.22269660 (2022).

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