American medical professionals fear that new varieties of coronavirus will make existing vaccines ineffective. This was announced on Tuesday at a briefing. The head of federal centers for the control and prevention of diseases of the US Diseases Rochelle Valenski, reports TASS.
“We, employees of public health and science, are concerned that, perhaps, only a few mutations will occur and a very easily propagating form of a virus will arise, which will be able to bypass the protection provided by our vaccines from severe cases of disease and deaths”, She said, answering a journalist’s question.
Valenski added that “currently available vaccines work very well in terms of protection against severe disease and fatal outcome”, but there is “big concerns about the appearance of a new variety” Coronavirus.