Moderna vaccine confers at least three months immunity: study

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Moderna vaccine confers at least three months immunity: study

The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, which the company says was recently demonstrated to have 94 per cent efficacy, causes the human immune system to produce potent antibodies that endure for at least three months, a study showed Thursday.

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