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South Africa coronavirus variant may evade vaccines – Business Insider – Business Insider
A mutated coronavirus strain detected in South Africa can partially evade the antibodies our immune system makes to protect us from reinfection.
At first, there was little evidence to suggest that COVID-19 vaccines wouldn’t work against the mutated, more infectious versions of the virus that have emerged in the last few months.
But preliminary research published this week suggests that a coronavirus variant detected in South Africa in December can partially evade the defenses vaccines build in our bodies’ immune systems.
The research has not yet been peer-reviewed, but it suggests the variant, known as 501Y.V2, can escape antibodies developed…
