Some highlights from my notes on the OP [1]:<p><i>> All anti-NTD neutralizing antibodies failed to recognize the Delta spike, indicating that the Delta variant is completely resistant to anti-NTD neutralizing antibodies elicited by wild-type spike protein, which is the antigenic component of widely used mRNA vaccines.</i><p><i>> A third round of booster immunization with the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is currently under consideration. Our data suggest that repeated immunization with the wild-type spike may not be effective in controlling the newly emerging Delta variants. </i><p>[1] The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is poised to acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike vaccines
<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.22.457114v1" rel="nofollow">https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.22.457114v1</a>
Whatever happened to the idea that boosters would be tailored to currently circulating virus variants, ala flu vaccines? Somewhere along the way the policy discussion shifted and I don't know why.<p>I'm becoming increasingly infuriated with the FDA and CDC.
Change/expand the payload of the mRNA vaccines as appropriate: <a href="https://fortune.com/2021/08/09/covid-vaccines-delta-variant-vaccine-biontech-pfizer/" rel="nofollow">https://fortune.com/2021/08/09/covid-vaccines-delta-variant-...</a>