Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine protects against key mutation found in fast-spreading virus variants, study shows
Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Washington Post
Jan. 8, 2021
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Ossineke Pharmacy supervisor, Sarah Tarkington, left, and MidMichigan Medical Center Pharmacy Manager, Laura Caplis, prepare the first Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to be administered in December in Alpena, Mich.photo for The Washington Post by Elaine Cromie.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine works against a key mutation found in new, fast-spreading coronavirus variants first discovered in the United Kingdom and South Africa, and now spreading across the globe.
The finding,published late Thursday night, but not yet peer-reviewed, bolsters many scientists expectations that the immune response triggered by vaccines will be broad enough to counter the new, highly contagious variants.