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. 2021 May 17;27(8):1109–1117. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2021.05.022

Table 4.

Effects of the different variants on therapeutics and vaccines

Vaccines B.1.1.7 B1.351 P.1 Other VOC/Is
mRNA Vaccine
Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2
90–95% efficacy in a setting of 81.5% B.1.1.7 prevalence, estimated by SGTF [66] 100% effective (53–100% CI), based on six cases in placebo group versus none in vaccine group [42] No published data No published data
Protein subunit vaccine
Novavax
NVX-CoV2373
85.6% efficacy against B.1.1.7
95.6% efficacy against non-B.1.1.7
Only one severe case [67]
60% efficacy in HIV(–) subjects in South Africa (92.7% of sequences were B.1.351),
51% against B.1.351 specifically
No severe cases, too few events to conclude [67]
No published data No published data
Adenovirus vaccine
Janssen (J&J)
Ad26.COV2.S
No published data 52% efficacy against moderate disease and 72% against severe/critical disease in South Africa (>95% of sequences were B.1.351), versus 72% efficacy in USA
100% protection against death [68]
No published data Insufficient data for P.2, No data for others
Adenovirus vaccine
AstraZeneca AZD1222
70% efficacy versus B.1.1.7 versus 81% against non-B.1.1.7 [69] 10% efficacy against mild and moderate disease in young people, no data against severe disease [45] No published data No published data
mAb therapies:
LY-CoV555 (Bamlanivimab) Susceptible Resistant [22,55] Resistant [22,55] B.1.429: Resistant [64]
Etesevimab Resistant [33] Resistant [33] Resistant [33] No data
REGN10933 and REGN10987 (Casirivimab + Imdevimab) Susceptible Partially resistant to Casirimivab, but Imdevimab is effective [33,55] Partially resistant to Casirivimab but Imdevimab is effective [33,55] B.1.526 with E484k is resists Casirivimab [70]

Vaccine efficacy is given as efficacy against symptomatic infection unless otherwise specified).

SGTF, S-gene target failure.