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Does this mutated coronavirus from minks transfer human->human?

Any guesses yet on whether the vaccines in development would respond to this virus as well?

Does the rest of the world need to immediately cut travel to Europe? Would rather stop travel and wish we didn't than allow travel and wish we stopped it...

We literally just had a real life trial for how we deal with new pandemics in January... have we learned our lesson?




The mutated cornavirus shows reduced responsiveness to antibodies thus a threat to current vacines in pipeline. Yes, it transfer Human-> Human. Hence the drastic measures to contain and eliminate the variant.




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