So Far, Vaccines Remain Effective Against Variants

Posted on AllSides May 13th, 2021
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So far, COVID-19 vaccines have been effective against variants of the coronavirus. Scientists are monitoring the situation carefully, with updated or new vaccines a possibility in the future, if need be. Social media claims blaming vaccination for an impending variant “disaster” are hypothetical predictions that ignore life-saving benefits of the vaccines.

As we’ve written before, the fact that variants of the original SARS-CoV-2 virus have emerged is not surprising. Viruses mutate, randomly as they replicate and make errors as the genome is copied again and again.

A mutation is one...

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