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UK coronavirus variant develops vaccine-evading mutation – Livescience.com

In a handful of instances, the U.K. coronavirus variant has developed a mutation called E484K, which may impact vaccine effectiveness.

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In a handful of instances, the U.K. coronavirus variant has developed a mutation that may help it evade current vaccines, according to news reports.
The variant, called B.1.1.7, was first identified in the U.K. in September 2020 and has since spread around the world, Live Science previously reported
. This variant is more contagious than earlier versions of the coronavirus.
On Monday (Feb. 1), officials in the United Kingdom revealed that, out of about 214,000 samples of the variant that underwent…

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