Omicron
In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt
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Is There Still Room for Antibodies to Attach to the Virus Key?
Scientists are trying to figure out is there still room for this vaccine anabodies to attach to the virus key? We hypothesise that there is because of this thing called evolution competition. For the virus to survive, it has to change enough to out smart our vaccines but importantly, it can't change enough where the key doesn't fit at all into our cell doors. So we are pretty optimistic that this virus isn't going to completely escape our vaccine immunity. But really, it's going to thrip away out of our effectiveness. And then the next question is, what do we do dependeng on how much of our effectiveness is chipped away ot it?
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