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Posted On: 12/17/2020 8:47:30 AM
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UK health officials have discovered a new coronavirus mutation that has been spreading rapidly in the UK.
Neither researchers nor health officials know whether the strain is more infectious, or whether it might complicate matters with vaccines and COVID-19 immunity.
Scientists have said the new strain actually carries 17 distinct genetic changes, most of them impacting the spike protein that the virus uses to infect cells.
Antibodies created after infection or vaccination target the spike protein, so any major changes to that protein might impact COVID-19 immunity.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/here...d=msedgntp
Neither researchers nor health officials know whether the strain is more infectious, or whether it might complicate matters with vaccines and COVID-19 immunity.
Scientists have said the new strain actually carries 17 distinct genetic changes, most of them impacting the spike protein that the virus uses to infect cells.
Antibodies created after infection or vaccination target the spike protein, so any major changes to that protein might impact COVID-19 immunity.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/here...d=msedgntp
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