Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • NEWS

Fourth dose of COVID vaccine offers only slight boost against Omicron infection

Israeli trial shows a fourth vaccination raises antibody levels but provides little extra protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection.
  1. Smriti Mallapaty
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed  Google Scholar

A fourth dose of a COVID-19 vaccine restores antibodies to levels observed after the third dose but provides only a modest boost in protection against infection, according to a small trial carried out in Israel1.

Access options

Rent or buy this article

Prices vary by article type

from$1.95

to$39.95

Learn more

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00486-9

References

  1. Regev-Yochay, G. et al. Preprint at medRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.15.22270948 (2022).

  2. Bar-On, Y. M. et al. Preprint at medRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.01.22270232 (2022).

Download references

Subjects

Latest on:

Nature Careers

Jobs

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing

Search

Advanced search

Quick links