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Figure 3: Schedule of a phase-1 vaccine trial. Courtesy David Male

Figure 5: from Wei, J., Pouwels, K.B., Stoesser, N. et al. Antibody responses and correlates of protection in the general population after two doses of the ChAdOx1 or BNT162b2 vaccines. Nat Med (2022).Open Access Published: 14 February 2022

Figure 6: from https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations?areaType=nation&areaName=England https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/

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Video 1: Detecting antibodies against SARS-CoV-2. Courtesy David Male © David Male

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