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... Does that mean that CoronaVac and Covaxin might eventually prove better than current vaccines widely available in the US?
by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
... Does that mean that CoronaVac and Covaxin might eventually prove better than current vaccines widely available in the US?
- raphlinus 5y agoThat seems very unlikely. If a variant evolves that has significant evasion of the vaccines, then we should be able to retool the mRNA vaccines quickly. And T-cell response is more robust to antigenic drift than the antibody response, though not as well studied. See [1] for a very detailed investigation into antigenic drift and vaccine evasion. [1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-021-00573-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-021-00573-0