“It’s unlikely,” Gupta agreed.
President-elect Joe Biden’s general surgeon candidate Vivek Murthy told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that “there is no reason to believe that the vaccines that have been developed will not be effective against this.” virus “.
Several experts noted that vaccines produce broad responses by the immune system, beyond those of the ear protein.
The chance that the new strains will be resistant to existing vaccines is low, but it is not “non-existent,” Dr. Moncef Slaoui, chief scientific advisor to the U.S. government’s vaccine distribution effort, in the state of CNN Union
“So far, I think there hasn’t been any variant that was resilient,” he said. “I think this particular variant in the UK is very unlikely to have escaped vaccine immunity.”
Bedford agreed.
“I don’t care,” because it would probably take a lot of changes in the genetic code to undermine a vaccine, not just one or two mutations, Bedford wrote on Twitter. But vaccines may need to be adjusted over time as changes accumulate and changes should be monitored more closely, he wrote.
Murthy said the new strain doesn’t change public health tips for wearing masks, washing hands and keeping social distance.