This A.30 Covid-19 Variant Can Evade Vaccines. Should We Be Worried?

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Newsweek: How Worried We Should Be by A.30 Variant That Can Evade Vaccines  

A team of scientists in Germany has warned that an old COVID variant called A.30 has resistance to the Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID vaccines. 

However, the variant has not been detected for months, with the last A.30 samples reported between May and June this year. 

According to the COVID variant tracking network GISAID, only five cases of A.30 have been reported worldwide—three in Angola, one in Sweden, and one in the U.K. 

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Update: Coronavirus A.30 variant ‘efficiently evades’ antibodies induced by Pfizer & AstraZeneca vaccines – lab study (RT)  

WNU Editor: I am not worried. Only 5 cases have been reported .... New vaccine resistant COVID variant found: Here’s why it is not worrisome (Jerusalem Post).

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