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Activity Title: COVID-19 Vaccinology Update: Will New Variants Necessitate New Vaccines
Release Date: March 5, 2021
Estimated Time to Complete Activity: 55 minutes
Statement of Need:
The emergence and spread of COVID-19 variants raises new questions and scientists must debate whether the variants undercut the effectiveness of first-generation COVID-19 vaccines. The new strains of SARS-CoV-2, first identified in the United Kingdom (B.1.1.7), Brazil (P.1) and South Africa (B.1.351), have developed a substantial number of mutations, especially in the S-protein, that seem to reduce the effects of antibodies crucial to fending off infection. This webinar is a follow up to ISID’s webinar on “COVID-19 Vaccinology Update: Development, Use and Effect on Public Health” released in January 2021. Prof. Malavige and Prof. Madhi will discuss the implications of these mutations on vaccine response and how vaccine manufacturers plan to update their vaccines to better target the emerging variants. Additionally, Prof. Madhi will discuss new results from phase 3 trials and what it will take to achieve herd immunity.
Faculty:
Neelika Malavige is a Professor and head of the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine, the Director of the Centre for Dengue Research, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka and an academic visitor at the MRC Human Immunology Unit, University of Oxford. She is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, UK.
Shabir A. Madhi is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Wits University. His former positions include Professor of Vaccinology in the School of Pathology at the University of the Witwatersrand and Director of the world-renowned Medical Research Council Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit (VIDA). Madhi is the National Research Foundation/Department of Science and Innovation SARChI Chair in Vaccine Preventable Diseases and he is Co-Director of African Leadership in Vaccinology Expertise (ALIVE). He chairs the National Advisory Group on Immunization in South Africa. His qualifications include MBBCh (Wits), MMed (Wits), FCPaeds(SA), Ph.D.
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Upon completion of this module, participants should be able to:
- Discuss the emergence and spread of COVID-19 variants and whether the variants undercut the effectiveness of first-generation COVID-19 vaccines
- Describe the new strains of SARS-CoV-2, first identified in the United Kingdom (B.1.1.7), Brazil (P.1) and South Africa (B.1.351), that have developed a substantial number of mutations, especially in the S-protein, that seem to reduce the effects of antibodies crucial to fending off infection
- Discuss the implications of mutations on vaccine response and how vaccine manufacturers plan to update their vaccines to better target the emerging variants.
The target audience for this module is physicians, nurses, public health officials, researchers, immunization officers, and other health professionals.
Shinde V, Bhikha S, Hoosain Z, et al; 2019nCoV-501 Study Group. Efficacy of NVX-CoV2373 Covid-19 Vaccine against the B.1.351 Variant. N Engl J Med. 2021 May 5;384(20):1899–909. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2103055. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33951374/
Madhi SA, Baillie V, Cutland CL, et al; NGS-SA Group Wits–VIDA COVID Group. Efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 Covid-19 Vaccine against the B.1.351 Variant. N Engl J Med. 2021 Mar 16:NEJMoa2102214. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2102214. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33725432/
McDonald I, Murray SM, Reynolds CJ, Altmann DM, Boyton RJ. Comparative systematic review and meta-analysis of reactogenicity, immunogenicity and efficacy of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2. NPJ Vaccines. 2021 May 13;6(1):74. doi: 10.1038/s41541-021-00336-1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33986272/
Emary KRW, Golubchik T, Aley PK, et al; COVID-19 Genomics UK consortium; AMPHEUS Project; Oxford COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Group. Efficacy of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern 202012/01 (B.1.1.7): an exploratory analysis of a randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2021 Apr 10;397(10282):1351-1362. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00628-0. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33798499/
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Faculty Disclosures:
Professor Neelika Malavige
Affiliation/Financial Interest and Name of Commercial Company
Receipt of honoraria or consultation fees: Sun Pharma (India)
Professor Shabir Madhi
Affiliation/Financial Interest and Name of Commercial Company
Grants/Research Support: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, South Africa Medical Research Council, Novavax
Sponsored Speakers Bureau: Cipla, Novartis
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