Amid uncertainties around the Omicron variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus , National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins said it will take weeks …
Amid uncertainties around the Omicron variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins said it will take weeks before scientists understand how effective the vaccines are at protecting against it. During an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Collins said the fact that the newly classified Omicron has more than 30 mutations on its spike proteins adds to the complexity in understanding whether the antibodies created by vaccines remain effective against it. “We do know that this is a variant that has a lot of mutations—like 50 of them, and more than 30 of those in the spike protein, which is the part off the virus that attaches to your human cells if you get infected,” Collins told host Trace Gallagher. “That is a new record in terms of the number of mutations,” he continued.
