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Sheena Cruickshank, Professor in Biomedical Sciences, University of Manchester

COVID vaccines: our current shots could soon be updated to target new variants – an immunology expert explains

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More than two years into the pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, continues to challenge us. Its ability to rapidly mutate has seen the evolution of increasingly infectious variants that are getting better at hiding from our immune response.

Vaccines are a huge achievement of modern-day science and have played a crucial role in reducing the very worst impacts of COVID. But are the vaccines we currently have able to deal with the newest COVID variants?

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