Why it’s too early to panic about Omicron and vaccines may protect against the variant after all

Researchers around the world are trying to work out whether existing Covid-19 vaccines protect us from the latest variant, Omicron.The worst-case scenario is the virus has mutated so much in the crucial parts of its genome that it can escape Covid-19 vaccines designed to protect us from earlier versions of the virus – with devastating consequences globally.But it’s too soon to panic. And vaccines may end up protecting us against Omicron after all, as they have done with earlier variants.The…

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