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Pfizer and Moderna are testing their vaccines on the English variant of the coronavirus. “Based on the data obtained to date, we expect that the immunity induced by the Moderna vaccine will also protect against recently discovered variants in the UK. We will do additional testing in the coming weeks to confirm these expectations,” the company said in a statement. Additionally, Pfizer reports that it is studying the response of immunized people to the new strain of the virus.
PfizerBionTech and Moderna are the only two vaccines licensed to date in the United States. The virus has mutated before and both companies have assured that their sera have also proven effective against these new variants.
In the morning, the founder of Biontech, Ugur Sahin, at a press conference, explained that the Covid mutation that appeared in Gan Britain “is a little different” from those considered so far “, and we still do not know exactly if our vaccine can also protect against this. From a scientific point of view, however, it is highly likely that our vaccine can also defend against this variant. ” Now it will take two weeks to collect the data.
