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Originally Posted by Niamh.
I thought the Oxford vaccine wasn't effective on the newer strains?
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Not many tests have been done although I heard that preliminary testing (on the SA strain which is the one that was causing vaccine worries) is actually quite encouraging.
The issue isn't really whether or not the vaccine will work at this point... It's that the rate in London is so high now that it will have spread like wildfire LONG before a decent proportion of people have been vaccinated... And those strains are now spreading globally.
Honearly there's a very real risk that the vaccines have simply come too late to stop full spread throughout the population.