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It is reason of concern, but the press really likes to blow things out of proportion.

Some better reasoned sanity here: https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/jo2muy/mink_and_co...



The Guardian are most definitely in the corona doomer category. Always highlighting the negative and ignoring the positive. I guess it gets them more clicks.


'Preliminary studies suggest that this virus exhibits decreased susceptibility to neutralizing antibodies from several people with a history of infection.'


In the thread I linked there should be the exact figures. Vaccines target the whole spike protein (most of them, at least) so it's likely not going to be a problem. It may be for monoclonal antibodies.




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