The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average is 22.8 % HIGHER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago. U.S. hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are now 4.8 %
HIGHER than the rolling average one week ago. U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 16.6 %
HIGHER than the rolling average one week ago. Today s posts include:
U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are at an elevated 274,703
U.S. Coronavirus hospitalizations are at an elevated 132,370 (for the next 4 days this is the number to watch as new cases and deaths will not be accurately reported)
U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at a record 4,085
U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 1.8 % of the population
Study suggests Pfizer vaccine will work on highly contagious coronavirus mutation
Updated Jan 08, 2021;
Posted Jan 08, 2021
The variants that are causing global concern carry multiple mutations but share one in common that’s believed to be the reason they are more contagious. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP
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New research suggests that 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.
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Most of the vaccines being rolled out around the world train the body to recognize that spike protein and fight it. Pfizer teamed with researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston for laboratory tests to see if the mutation affected its vaccine s ability to do so.
They used blood samples from 20 people who received the vaccine, made by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, during a large study of the shots. Antibodies from those vaccine recipients successfully fended off the virus in lab dishes, according to the study posted late Thursday on an online site for researchers.
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