Super Mutant Covid-19 Variant Will Reduce Vaccine’s Effectiveness By 40%
A new super mutant Coronavirus variant will reportedly reduce the current Covid vaccine’s effectiveness by 40%, and it has left some countries in a panic!
The B.1.1.529 variant is reportedly a lot more contagious than the Delta and the new strain has a “very unusual constellation” of new mutations, Tulio de Oliveira, director of South Africa’s Centre of Epidemic Response and Innovation revealed.
“@My god—the new #B11259 variant being possibly ~500% more competitively infectious is the most staggering stat yet. Also, #NuVariant has more than >2x the number of bad spike mutations than Delta. Here’s an updatedModel by @JPWeiland matches up with graph by @jburnmurdoch,” Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding tweeted.
This means that the new variant will be immune to the current vaccine. UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid revealed that the vaccines will be 40% less effective against the new variant per the Daily Mail.
“Our scientists are deeply concerned about this variant. I’m concerned, of course, that’s one of the reasons we have taken this action today,” the Health Secretary said.
“The early indication we have of this variant is it may be more transmissible than the Delta variant and the vaccines that we currently have may be less effective against it.”
The new variant could cause more travel bans to be put in place.