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Elderly with few antibodies may need an extra dose of COVID-19 vaccine: Study

Medical Xpress

The new mRNA vaccines have just as good a protective effect against COVID-19 for the very oldest as for younger people. However, the study shows that elderly people with a low antibody response after vaccination were at increased risk of dying from the omicron variants of the disease.