New virus variant, optimism about the efficacy of the Covid vaccine

Published on: 12/20/2020 10:57 AM

New variant of the coronavirus and vaccines, from England optimism with the latest news, while London and some areas of the country face a new and rigid blockade due to the discovery of a new ‘version’ of the virus, more contagious and faster in spread. Reporting the words uttered last night by epidemiologist Chris Whitty, chief medical adviser to the British government, the Daily Mail explains that while there were “theoretical reasons” to suspect that some genetic mutations could affect the efficacy of vaccines, “l hypothesis on which you are working at the moment […] is that the response of the vaccine must be adequate “to this new variant.

Therefore, the scientists, continues the Mail online, “they believe that it is highly unlikely that a small amount of modifications in the protein of the peak of the virus, which is where vaccines concentrate their ‘firepower’, will render them useless.”

Meanwhile, government sources, the Daily Mail continues, have said that the Oxford vaccine will likely be approved by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) later this month, paving the way for the first recipients to be vaccinated before the new Year.