Guest Post — By Edward Nirenberg: mRNA Vaccines and Antibody Induction

COVID-19 Spike Proteins

So this paper in Science is an interesting paper with important findings that I think merit discussion:

“Class switch towards non-inflammatory, spike-specific IgG4 antibodies after repeated SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination”

Here’s the gist: everyone thinks of neutralization when it comes to antibodies (that is — stopping…