Delta Variant: Poised to be Totally Resistant to the Current COVID Vaccines

The Delta variant is the predominant strain causing COVID-19 throughout the world. It has shown resistance to the antibodies produced by the BNT162b2 Pfizer vaccine leading to breakthrough infections among the fully vaccinated. The mutations in the receptor-binding domain (RBD) allows the Delta variant to avoid the neutralizing antibodies. Recently, researchers from Osaka University investigated…

Antibody dependent enhancement can happen to Delta Variant COVID-19

This article is partially rewritten for better readability on October 9, 2021 Aix-Marseille Université in France experimented to determine if antibodies from the COVID-19 vaccines can cause infection enhancement if someone gets infected with the Delta variant. The study is Infection-enhancing anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies recognize both the original Wuhan/D614G strain and Delta variants. A potential risk…