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New research suggests Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine can protect against a mutation found in the two more-contagious variants of the coronavirus that have erupted in Britain and South Africa.
The study was preliminary and did not look at the two other major vaccines being used in the West Moderna’s and AstraZeneca’s. But it was reassuring, given questions of whether the virus could mutate to defeat the shots on which the world has pinned its hopes.
“There’s no reason to think the vaccines won’t work just as well on these strains,” said Dr. Frederic Bushman of the University of Pennsylvania, who tracks how the virus mutates.
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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The finding,published late Thursday night, but not yet peer-reviewed, bolsters many scientists expectations that the immune response triggered by vaccines will be broad enough to counter the new, highly contagious variants.