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Covid-19: "Counteract the possible emergence of virus variants resistant to vaccines"

2021-01-14T18:37:48.419Z


TRIBUNE - "English variant", "South African variant": these days, it is only a question of the mutation of the Covid which calls into question the strategies of scientists and public authorities. The 13 signatories *, high-level scientists and of different nationalities, explain ...


If we are

"at war"

against the Covid-19, have we done everything to know the enemy who has already killed more than 65,000 in France and who, one year after its appearance, is endangering our health? and our economy?

Like Proteus, this Sars-CoV-2 virus is changeable and its changes determine our future.

The appearance of more contagious variants is proof of this.

It's a warning.

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Covid-19: the French now mostly in favor of the vaccine

The first containment briefly blocked the circulation of the virus.

The second, partial, was not enough to effectively control the epidemic.

The arrival of vaccines offers hope for victory in the long term.

But the battle is not won, and we must devote more efforts to monitoring the evolution of the virus and its consequences to detect as quickly as possible the variations in its contagiousness, its dangerousness and its sensitivity to vaccines.

The appearance of viral variants escaping our control strategies was predictable because biologically inevitable.

Take the perspective of the virus: a virus is not

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Source: lefigaro

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