Volume 31, No 11, Nov 2021

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 31 Issue 11, November 2021: 1146-1147

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Timing vaccination against SARS-CoV-2

Coline Barnoud¹ , Chen Wang¹ , Christoph Scheiermann^1,2,*

¹Department of Pathology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
²Walter-Brendel-Centre of Experimental Medicine, BioMedical Centre, Ludwig-Maximilians-University München, Planegg-Martinsried, München, Germany
Correspondence: Christoph Scheiermann(christoph.scheiermann@unige.ch)

Circadian rhythms play an important role in balancing innate and adaptive immune responses. In a recent study in Cell Research, Zhang et al. studied the immunological response in humans to an inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine administered at two different times of the day and showed that vaccination in the morning induces a two-fold stronger immune response.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-021-00559-w

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