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Reuters: Two doses of Pfizer, AstraZeneca shots effective against Delta variant

By Reuters.

Published July 22, 2021 at 3:43 am

A vial containing the COVID-19 vaccine by Pfizer-BioNTech and a syringe are seen on a table in the pharmacy of the vaccination center at the Robert Bosch hospital in Stuttgart, southern Germany, on Feb. 12, 2021.

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Two doses of Pfizer or AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine are nearly as effective against the highly transmissible Delta coronavirus variant as they are against the previously dominant Alpha variant, a study published on Wednesday showed.