Health
Fears new coronavirus strain has ‘developed a superpower’ – Yahoo News Australia
The latest ‘troublesome’ mutation discovered has prompted concerns it could potentially result in the vaccine failing for large swathes of the population.
The highly-infectious UK coronavirus strain has made another troublesome mutation which could lead to the virus evading immunisation.
Public Health England confirmed genomic testing has found infections with the E484K mutation seen in the highly transmissible South African and Brazilian variants.
Former Harvard epidemiologist Dr Eric Feigl-Ding explained various antibodies are 10 times less effective when faced with the mutation in some patients, which he described as a rather bad thing.
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