“Impossible,” Gupta agreed.
“There is no reason to believe that the vaccine that has been developed will not be effective against the virus,” Vivek Murthy, surgeon general nominee for President-elect Joe Biden, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
Some experts have noted that the vaccine produces responses other than spike proteins by the immune system.
U.S. Dr. Monsef Slow, chief science adviser on the government’s vaccine distribution efforts, told CNN. The Union Government’s vaccine against the “State of the Union.” The new vaccine is unlikely to be resistant to the existing vaccine, but “does not exist,” it said Sunday.
“So far, I don’t think there’s been a single type of change that’s going to be resistant,” he said. “This particular type of vaccine in the UK, I think, is very unlikely to escape immunization.”
Bedford agreed.
“I’m not worried,” Bedford wrote on Twitter, as many changes to the genetic code may be needed to weaken the vaccine, not just one or two. But as changes accumulate, vaccines may need to be taken over time, and changes need to be monitored more closely, he wrote.
Murthy said the new stress does not change public health advice for wearing masks, washing hands and maintaining social distance.
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