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Coronavirus variants threaten to upend pandemic progress. Here's how 4 top vaccine makers are fighting back.

The US has effectively been driving blind in the face of these threats. The nationin sequencing efforts that identify variants. Instead of tracking these mutants every step of the way, the US public health system sees only fractions of what is going on with the pandemic.South Carolinians were infected with the B.1.351 version"We should be treating every case as if it's a variant," Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Friday.

Instead, the B.1.351 variant poses more of a risk because it appears to diminish the effectiveness of current vaccines. On Thursday, the Maryland-based company shared its plans to immediately start developing a version of its shot tailored to B.1.351, recognizing the decline in efficacy as a real challenge.released results from a 44,000-person trial that recruited people across the US, Latin America, and South AfricaJ&J's shot was 72% effective in the US, but 57% effective in South Africa. In South Africa, the B.1.351 variant was responsible for 95% of reported cases.

"This one does not seem to be warranting at all of coming up with a new vaccine, but it teaches us what to look for," Mammen said, referring to B.1.351.

 

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