COVID vaccines can block variant hitting Asia, lab study finds


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17 May 2021 COVID vaccines can block variant hitting Asia, lab study finds Assays using live SARS-CoV-2 offer hope that the vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna will protect against a viral strain first seen in India. View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar A health worker gives a second dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine to Maria Valdemar in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Credit: Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Gold-standard experiments on two COVID-19 vaccines suggest that they confer immunity against a subtype of the SARS-CoV-2 variant tearing through India. But the research also hints that this subtype...