“I couldn’t sleep”: new data on COVID variants concerns scientists – The Market Herald

• For several months, scientists around the world have been optimistic that an increasing rollout of vaccines could largely contain the coronavirus
• But data from a recent vaccine trial in South Africa showed that variants could lessen the effect of vaccines and evade natural immunity
• Scientists now believe that COVID-19 will remain with us as an endemic virus and likely cause a significant burden of illness and death for years to come
• That said, new vaccines still appear to prevent hospitalisations and…

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