{"id":670306,"date":"2022-10-14T12:43:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T12:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=670306"},"modified":"2022-10-14T12:43:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T12:43:44","slug":"covid-19-protection-may-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/covid-19-protection-may-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 Protection May Boost?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Some people around the world could have some &#8220;lucky genes&#8221; or contain DNA that may get stronger by having Covid-19 jabs. This could help a certain percentage of people across the world with Covid-19, and help those who have this &#8220;gene&#8221; and or DNA type, this has all been reported by scientists from University of Oxford.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Research suggests that at least 30 to 40% of people in the UK have this type of Gene. This is a great antibody response following the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say the vaccine is the best way for people around the world to protect themselves from Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers analysed blood samples from people who took part in five different trials, including 1,600 adults who had either the Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as their first jab. Says the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_670307\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-670307\" class=\"wp-image-670307 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_1715293195.jpg\" alt=\"Covid-19\" width=\"500\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_1715293195.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_1715293195-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-670307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: <a class=\"jss1834 jss44 jss46 jss45\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/Ismagilov\">ImageFlow<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">\u00a0&#8220;From this study we have evidence that our genetic make-up is one of the reasons why we may differ from each other in our immune response following Covid-19 vaccination.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">&#8220;We found that inheriting a specific variant of an HLA gene was associated with higher antibody responses, but this is only the start of the story.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">&#8220;Further work is needed to better understand the clinical significance of this specific association,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And more broadly what identifying this gene variant can tell us about how effective immune responses are generated, and ways to continue to improve vaccines for everyone.&#8221; says the Lead researcher Prof Julian Knight.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is great news for some people around the world and not so great for the 60 to 70% of people that don&#8217;t have this gene.<\/p>\n<p>For more Latest News, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>For everything Five Minutes Spare, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Banner and Image Credit: <a class=\"jss268 jss44 jss46 jss45\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/Rudzhan\">mentalmind<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people around the world could have some &#8220;lucky genes&#8221; or contain DNA that may get stronger by having Covid-19 jabs. This could help a certain percentage of people across the world with Covid-19, and help those who have this &#8220;gene&#8221; and or DNA type, this has all been reported by scientists from University of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":670308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2084],"tags":[1844],"class_list":["post-670306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid","tag-covid-19"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670309,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670306\/revisions\/670309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}