Vaccines seen as still effective against the coronavirus variant; experts urge calm
By Martin Finucane Globe Staff,Updated December 21, 2020, 6:26 p.m.
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Registered nurse Courtney Senechal prepared a shot of the Moderna vaccine at East Boston Neighborhood Health Center on Monday.Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
The emergence of a new coronavirus variant is raising alarm around the world, but some experts are saying they expect that the vaccines that have been rolled out with so much hope in recent days will still be effective.
âHere is the context: you are going to read and hear about a million and one variant viruses, because viruses mutate by nature. Itâs scary, I know,â said Kizzmekia Corbett, a National Institutes of Health scientist who helped lead a team of scientists in developing the vaccine being produced by Cambridge-based Moderna.
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Pfizer & Moderna Testing Vaccine Against New Mutated Coronavirus
(CNN) Pfizer and Moderna are testing their coronavirus vaccines to see if they work against the new mutated version of the virus that’s recently been found in the United Kingdom and other countries, according to company statements.
“Based on the data to date, we expect that the Moderna vaccine-induced immunity would be protective against the variants recently described in the UK; we will be performing additional tests in the coming weeks to confirm this expectation,” according to the Moderna statement.
Pfizer said it is now “generating data” on how well blood samples from people immunized with its vaccine “may be able to neutralize the new strain from the UK.”