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Pfizer study suggests vaccine works against virus variant – WPTZ
Pfizer researchers say laboratory testing shows that mutation of COVID-19 doesn’t block the vaccine. But more tests are needed to see if an additional mutation…
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New research suggests that Pfizers COVID-19 vaccine can protect against a mutation found in two highly contagious variants of the coronavirus that erupted in Britain and South Africa.
Those variants are causing global concern. They both share a common mutation called N501Y, a slight alteration on one spot of the spike protein that coats the virus. That change is believed to be the reason they can spread so easily.
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