From the Editor: Help us Love a Little Local

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This is the good NEWS – Ed.

The arrival of the first batch of vaccines for essential medical staff is hopefully the start of the serious fightback against the Coronavirus. Despite the fact that current vaccines seem to be less effective against the South African variant of the virus, we should not lose hope.

The American vaccine producer Moderna said that while the antibodies created by its vaccine were less effective at neutralizing this variant than previously dominant ones, it is already developing a new booster shot and testing out a three-shot regimen to increase the vaccine’s efficacy against the variant. Pfizer and its research partner BioNTech released the findings of a study showing that its vaccine was only slightly less effective against the variant. While this is not the silver bullet we were hoping for, at least it gives us a fighting chance in the battle against the virus.

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