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March 3, 2022

Study Finds Third mRNA Vaccine Dose Dramatically Boosts Protection Against Omicron
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Here in the United States, the death toll from COVID-19 has topped
950,000, by far the highest reported death toll of any nation. The virus
continues to kill 2,000 U.S. residents, on average, each day.

Meanwhile, new research finds a third dose of Pfizer's or Moderna's
COVID-19 vaccine dramatically increases protection against mild illness
from the Omicron coronavirus variant. The study in The New England
Journal of Medicine found that protection against symptomatic disease
plummeted to just 8% in people who had two shots of Pfizer's vaccine. A
third dose provided a rapid and substantial increase in protection
against both mild and severe illness from Omicron. Similar results were
observed for Moderna's vaccine.


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