Strength and durability of antibody responses to BNT162b2 and CoronaVac

Benjamin J Cowling1, Irene O L Wong2, Eunice Y C Shiu2

  • 1WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health, Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Vaccine
|June 14, 2022
PubMed

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