{"id":9564,"date":"2025-05-28T10:29:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9564"},"modified":"2025-05-28T10:29:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:29:56","slug":"delta-and-omicron-variants-partially-evaded-covid-19-vaccines-study-indicates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/05\/28\/delta-and-omicron-variants-partially-evaded-covid-19-vaccines-study-indicates\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta and Omicron Variants Partially Evaded COVID-19 Vaccines, Study Indicates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.med.miami.edu\/delta-and-omicron-variants-partially-evaded-covid-19-vaccines\/\">University of Florida<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original COVID-19 vaccines protected against disease and saved lives. However, a new study published in&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41590-025-02162-2\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Nature Immunology,, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nature Immunology,<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;and co-authored by researchers with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, uncovers a caveat. Vaccinated people\u2019s immune responses to newly emerged versions of the virus showed less specificity to these variants.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Essential workers and others who contracted the Delta or Omicron variants after being vaccinated produced stronger responses with higher levels of antibodies overall than their unvaccinated counterparts. However, the team\u2019s analysis uncovered deficits in their ability to target the mutated parts of the variant specifically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.med.miami.edu\/delta-and-omicron-variants-partially-evaded-covid-19-vaccines\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Florida The original COVID-19 vaccines protected against disease and saved lives. However, a new study published in&nbsp;Nature Immunology,&nbsp;and co-authored by researchers with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, uncovers a caveat. Vaccinated people\u2019s immune responses to newly emerged versions of the virus showed less specificity to these variants.&nbsp; Essential workers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9565,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9564\/revisions\/9565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}