Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

A randomized study to evaluate safety and immunogenicity of the BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine in healthy Japanese adults

  • Miwa Haranaka,
  • James Baber,
  • Yoichiro Ogama,
  • Masako Yamaji,
  • Masakazu Aizawa,
  • Osamu Kogawara,
  • Ingrid Scully,
  • Eleni Lagkadinou,
  • Ӧzlem Türeci,
  • Uğur Şahin,
  • Philip R. Dormitzer,
  • William C. Gruber,
  • Stephen Lockhart

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27316-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Here the authors provide the interim analysis of an ongoing phase 1/2 study of the BNT162b2 vaccine in healthy Japanese adults. They report mainly mild to moderate local reactions and no serious adverse events as well as good antibody induction one month after the second dose.