email article WASHINGTON -- Biden administration officials sought to assure the public Wednesday that COVID-19 vaccine shipments will increase soon, and that current vaccines should be able to accommodate most of the variants that have arisen. "When you're looking at the U.K. variant, what we're seeing is very slight -- if any impact -- on vaccine-induced antibodies and very little impact on anything else, so we're covered with that," Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Biden's chief medical advisor, said during an online reporter briefing. "Things get a bit more problematic ... with what we're seeing on the dominant one in South Africa," he continued. "In that regard, there is a moderate diminution -- namely a multi-fold diminution -- in the