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UK faces race between vaccine rollout and virus mutations, scientists say – St Albans & Harpenden Review
Scientists have said a coronavirus variant resistant to current vaccines is likely to occur – but jabs can also be modified ‘within weeks’.
Scientists have said a Covid-19 variant resistant to the current crop of vaccines is likely to emerge at some point, but immunisations can also be adapted “within weeks”.
The vaccines which have so far been rolled out to over half a million people in the UK provide immunity against the new more transmissible variant, but its emergence has raised questions about whether future mutations could conquer immunisations.
In mid-December, England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty said that…
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