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Here's what known about the new COVID-19 variant in the UK:
1. The variant in question is called VUI-202012/01 .
  1. The UK scientists has said there is signs that It's more transmissible.
  2. So far, this new variant does not increase the mortality.
  3. It's not known if a vaccine will not work against the variant. I did hear that Moderna is currently evaluating their vaccine to see if the vaccine could work against the variant.
 
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Wife received her 1st dose of the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine this evening, identified as group 1a. Employers are required to upload groups in NC’s vaccine management system, recipients must complete the registration process. Appears we are tracking at the state level, and post injection they are being asked to register with CDC and report any side effects. CDC C19 vaccine card has spaces for four injections, a signal this may need to be annual for the coming years.
 
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A number of countries has banned air travel to/from UK due to the new variant.
* Austria
* Netherlands
* Beligum
* Kuwait
* Turkey
* Sweden
* France (for at least 2 days)
* Israel
* Germany
* Italy

I haven't seen any bans like this since March.
 
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NoSnowATL said:
It won’t, plus add the amount of people that won’t get the shot. Did they actually think most Americans would get the shot?
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As long as the spike protein is the same in the new variant, which thus far all mutations it has been, then the vaccine should be effective. A new strain doesn’t automatically mean a different vaccine. Which is good news, but still doesn’t mean that we don’t have to keep an eye out for that to change.
 
Rain Cold said:
This is the problem. There's going to be one variant after another. I feel like vaccines won't be able to keep up.
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The variant is just due to antigenic drift. So far, there’s no evidence there’s change in the spike protein function or shape, which as most know — the mRNa vaccine is made to code for.

As of now, most immunologists are fairly confident we won’t need a new vaccine next year. Since it’s a novel covid-19 virus, it takes years for significant mutations that would impact the spike protein.
 
Jon said:
The variant is just due to antigenic drift. So far, there’s no evidence there’s change in the spike protein function or shape, which as most know — the mRNa vaccine is made to code for.

As of now, most immunologists are fairly confident we won’t need a new vaccine next year. Since it’s a novel covid-19 virus, it takes years for significant mutations that would impact the spike protein.
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Hope they're right. Just out of curiosity, why can't we develop vaccines for other types of Coronaviruses? If you say money, I'd have to counter that with the decades that we've had to be able to do it.
 
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