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You may need extra COVID-19 vaccine doses to combat more infectious variants, a former Obama administration official says

to sometimes avoid antibodies, produced by the body to fight off infection. It has not yet been found in the US.Patel, a physician in Washington, DC, said that "we all suspected that this would not be our only set of shots, whatever we're receiving this year."But Patel said that the worst of the pandemic was hopefully behind us, adding that hospitalizations, deaths, and positive test rates were coming down.

"Could we see something more dire soon to come? Very low likelihood given the fact that we do have two incredibly effective vaccines available." Patel pointed to vaccine manufacturers Johnson & Johnson and Novavax, who will "hopefully add to our armament of vaccine technology."stopped developing two potential COVID-19 vaccinesPatel said the announcement didn't come as a surprise, and that the drug company's withdrawal wouldn't have a significant impact.

But Patel warned that vaccine supplies could become "constrained" if the US doesn't approve Johnson & Johnson and Novavax's vaccines in the upcoming months. More than 25.3 million Americans have been infected with the novel coronavirus and more than 420,000 have died from it, according to the

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