The past few days there was a lot of concern around the world after it was discovered that a new variant of the Corona virus would be immune to the antibodies produced by the vaccination, but it seems that things are not quite like that, according to the Americans from the CDC.
According to the CDC, the Epsilon variant of the Coronavirus is not immune to the antibodies produced by vaccination, or those produced by natural infection, but it is not known to what extent they offer protection, especially the latter, which offer very little protection against the Delta variant .
“Modest decrease in susceptibility to the combination of bamlanivimab and etesevimab; however, the clinical implications of this decrease are unknown.7 Alternative monoclonal antibody treatments are available
Reduced neutralization by convalescent and post-vaccination sera.
Disqualified from VOC on June 29, 2021 due to significant decline in the proportion of B.1.427-descendant viruses circulating nationally and available data indicating that vaccines and treatments are effective against this variant.”
