As a result of the high amount of coronavirus circulating in the U.S., largely among unvaccinated people, we could be 'just a few mutations away' from a COVID variant that can evade our vaccines, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky warned this week.
July 30, 2021 -- The CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, made a dire prediction during a media briefing this week that, if we weren't already living within the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic, would sound more like a pitch for a movie about a dystopian future.
"What we've mostly seen this virus do is evolve to become more infectious," says Stuart Ray, MD."That is the remarkable feature of Delta — that it is so infectious."-CoV-2 has evolved largely as expected, at least so far."The potential for this virus to mutate has been something that has been a concern from early on."
If this occurs, he says,"we will have an ineffective vaccine, essentially. And we'll be back to where we were last March with a brand-new disease."The flexibility of mRNA vaccines is one potential solution. These vaccines could be more easily and quickly adapted to respond to a new, more vaccine-elusive variant.
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