COVID-19 vaccine rollouts may be way around variant issue, expert says
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Vaccinating as many people against the novel coronavirus as possible may be one way to address the concerning variant issue, one expert said on Thursday.
"If we are able to immunize enough people over a short period of time, then we are going to be able to get around this problem of new variants," he said during an IDSA media briefing on Thursday. "The virus has to have a host in order to survive." Several studies have suggested that the currently-approved mRNA vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna may not offer as much protection against the South African variant as it does others. On Wednesday, the White House announced that a variant with the elusive E48K mutation was detected in the U.S., raising further concern about vaccine efficacy.More Related News