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MIT study: Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and other vaccines may not do as well covering people of Black or Asian genetic ancestry as they do for white people https://www.zdnet.com/article/mit-machine-learning-models-find-gaps-in-coverage-by-moderna-pfizer-other-warp-speed-covid-19-vaccines/
"Preliminary results suggest that, on average, people of Black or Asian ancestry could have a slightly increased risk of vaccine ineffectiveness," one of the study's authors wrote. https://www.zdnet.com/article/mit-machine-learning-models-find-gaps-in-coverage-by-moderna-pfizer-other-warp-speed-covid-19-vaccines/
"[The] weakness [of the vacines], the MIT report contends, which is that they do not use a sufficiently diverse set of viral particles to stimulate the same level of immune response in all people in the population, depending on genetic makeup." https://www.zdnet.com/article/mit-machine-learning-models-find-gaps-in-coverage-by-moderna-pfizer-other-warp-speed-covid-19-vaccines/
MIT release has finer point: Asians least likely to respond to covid vaccines.
"people whose cellular immune system is not predicted to robustly respond to the vaccine ranged from [<.5%] of white participants to nearly 10 percent of Asian participants."
https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/mit-study-covid-19-vaccines-may-be-less-effective-asian-americans
"people whose cellular immune system is not predicted to robustly respond to the vaccine ranged from [<.5%] of white participants to nearly 10 percent of Asian participants."
https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/mit-study-covid-19-vaccines-may-be-less-effective-asian-americans
Prof. Akiko Iwasaki, a professor of immunobiology at Yale, explains why this should not be a cause for alarm: https://twitter.com/VirusesImmunity/status/1335278168584884227?s=19
