8 Ways to Protect Yourself Against the Mutated COVID-19 Variants
Get the COVID-19 vaccine
If you’re not among these 4 Groups of People Who Shouldn’t Get the COVID-19 Vaccine Just Yet, health experts recommend getting the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as it becomes available to your demographic. According to Braunstein, vaccines encode for various spike proteins; the new variants have mutations to a single protein, therefore, the vaccines should still be efficient and provide adequate protection.
However, as Dr. Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases, also pointed out, it is possible for other mutated versions of the virus to require certain vaccine changes. This makes the vaccination of at-risk people all the more important in slowing the spread of the virus and its new variants.
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