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COVID-19 / Re: How can vaccines claim to work against the new variations?
« on: 20/01/2021 20:53:38 »
Researchers are tackling this in several ways. The most obvious is that they take samples of the mutant viruses, mix them with antibodies made by people who have been vaccinated and then test if the viruses can still grow in culture. If they can, they've evolved beyond the protective effect of the vaccine. The second approach being used is to engineer the changes detected in the mutants into viruses grown in the laboratory to test individually whether the changes affect the immune recognition of the viruses. The third way is that scientists make models of the virus and alter them to reflect the mutations and look at how this changes the shape of the virus and by how much.
So far, these sorts of experiments are suggesting that the immunity conferred by the vaccine will still be protective against the viral variants.
So far, these sorts of experiments are suggesting that the immunity conferred by the vaccine will still be protective against the viral variants.
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