A study conducted by Coronavirus Vaccine-induced Antibody Titre (COVAT) has found that seropositivity rates and median anti-spike antibody titre was significantly higher in Astra Zeneca’s Covishield as compared to Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin.
The study was conducted on health workers in India wh have received both doses of either of the two COVID vaccines which were given approval in January 2021.
The research was done on 515 health care workers, out of which 95.0 per cent showed seropositivity after two doses of both vaccines.
Notably, both Covishield and Covaxin elicited a good immune response after two doses.
"Amongst the 552 HCW (325 Male, 227 Female), 456 and 96 received the first dose of Covishield and Covaxin respectively. Overall, 79.3 per cent showed seropositivity after the first dose.
Responder rate and median (IQR) rise in anti-spike antibody were significantly higher in Covishield vs. Covaxin recipient (86.8 vs. 43.8 per cent; 61.5 vs. 6 AU/ml; both p