Reports are coming in that the COVID-19 virus has mutated. Do you think we need a second vaccine?

Aneeda72

Aneeda72

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Like the flu and the cold virus, the COVID-19 virus has mutated again. The first virus was in China, carried to Europe, mutated, and we received the European virus. (And probably the Chinese virus as well.). Now, in the USA, the virus had mutated again so we have two strains (Possibly three.)

Do you think, like flu viruses, we now need two, or perhaps more, vaccines? Can we really “defeat” this virus?
 

I once read that ALL viruses eventually mutate. Any vaccine that was originally used against the original virus, like the vaccine being used against the swine or H1N1, will also work on the mutated viruses from the original virus. Sounds confusing, but in other words, any mutated virus from the original COVID-19 should work on any mutated viruses from the COVID-19.
 

911 said:
I once read that ALL viruses eventually mutate. Any vaccine that was originally used against the original virus, like the vaccine being used against the swine or H1N1, will also work on the mutated viruses from the original virus. Sounds confusing, but in other words, any mutated virus from the original COVID-19 should work on any mutated viruses from the COVID-19.
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I don’t know, as the different flu viruses have different vaccines-guess we will just wait and see. 😁
 
Aneeda72 said:
Like the flu and the cold virus, the COVID-19 virus has mutated again. The first virus was in China, carried to Europe, mutated, and we received the European virus. (And probably the Chinese virus as well.). Now, in the USA, the virus had mutated again so we have two strains (Possibly three.)

Do you think, like flu viruses, we now need two, or perhaps more, vaccines? Can we really “defeat” this virus?
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Three to nine times more infectious.



https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn.../coronavirus-mutation-spread-study/index.html
 
How in the world could we answer that, Aneeda? The greatest medical minds in the world are struggling with the first vaccine. How well it works, whether we will need a second one, etc., only time will tell.
 
Even the polio virus mutated, but still only the 2 different methods of taking basically the same ‘type’ of vaccine are available. There was an outbreak of one of the mutated versions of the polio vaccine back in 2010 in the Congo that resisted the present vaccine. It affected around 450 people of which about 210 of them died.
Polio Mutation
 

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