Adverse effects of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines: the spike hypothesis

IP Trougakos, E Terpos, H Alexopoulos… - Trends in Molecular …, 2022 - cell.com
Vaccination is a major tool for mitigating the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic, and mRNA vaccines are central to the ongoing vaccination campaign that is …

Correlates of protection against SARS‐CoV‐2 infection and COVID‐19 disease

D Goldblatt, G Alter, S Crotty… - Immunological reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Antibodies against epitopes in S1 give the most accurate CoP against infection by the SARS‐
CoV‐2 coronavirus. Measurement of those antibodies by neutralization or binding assays …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 vaccination induces immunological T cell memory able to cross-recognize variants from Alpha to Omicron

A Tarke, CH Coelho, Z Zhang, JM Dan, ED Yu… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
We address whether T cell responses induced by different vaccine platforms (mRNA-1273,
BNT162b2, Ad26. COV2. S, and NVX-CoV2373) cross-recognize early SARS-CoV-2 …

Considerable escape of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron to antibody neutralization

D Planas, N Saunders, P Maes, F Guivel-Benhassine… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant was first identified in November 2021 in
Botswana and South Africa,–. It has since spread to many countries and is expected to …

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron virus causes attenuated disease in mice and hamsters

PJ Halfmann, S Iida, K Iwatsuki-Horimoto, T Maemura… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The recent emergence of B. 1.1. 529, the Omicron variant,, has raised concerns of escape
from protection by vaccines and therapeutic antibodies. A key test for potential …

Beyond neutralization: Fc-dependent antibody effector functions in SARS-CoV-2 infection

A Zhang, HD Stacey, MR D'Agostino, Y Tugg… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Neutralizing antibodies are known to have a crucial role in protecting against SARS-CoV-2
infection and have been suggested to be a useful correlate of protection for vaccine clinical …

Defining the risk of SARS-CoV-2 variants on immune protection

MM DeGrace, E Ghedin, MB Frieman, F Krammer… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The global emergence of many severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) variants jeopardizes the protective antiviral immunity induced after infection or …

mRNA-1273 or mRNA-Omicron boost in vaccinated macaques elicits similar B cell expansion, neutralizing responses, and protection from Omicron

M Gagne, JI Moliva, KE Foulds, SF Andrew, BJ Flynn… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
SARS-CoV-2 Omicron is highly transmissible and has substantial resistance to
neutralization following immunization with ancestral spike-matched vaccines. It is unclear …

Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA. 4 and BA. 5 isolates in rodents

R Uraki, PJ Halfmann, S Iida, S Yamayoshi… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The BA. 2 sublineage of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant has become dominant in most
countries around the world; however, the prevalence of BA. 4 and BA. 5 is increasing rapidly …

Vaccine-induced systemic and mucosal T cell immunity to SARS-CoV-2 viral variants

B Kingstad-Bakke, W Lee… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The first-generation COVID-19 vaccines have been effective in mitigating severe illness and
hospitalization, but recurring waves of infections are associated with the emergence of …