Morning Jolt: Good News about the Pfizer Vaccine

On the menu today: some really good news about the effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine against the Brazilian, U.K., and South African variants; a reminder that the more partisan a claim about the pandemic was, the less likely it was to be accurate; and the Lincoln Project tries to pull a Northam.

In Your Face, Variants!

In the tug of war between pandemic optimism and pandemic pessimism, one of the recurring arguments from the side of pessimism is that the virus is always mutating, mutated versions have in some cases become more contagious and more virulent, and our vaccines either may not work as effectively or, God forbid, may not work at all.

One lab experiment offers evidence that variants can slow the antibodies generated by the Pfizer vaccine, but they can't stop it:

The Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE showed a high ability to neutralize coronavirus strains first detected in Brazil, the U.K. and South Africa, according to a ...

WITH JIM GERAGHTY March 09 2021 WITH JIM GERAGHTY March 09 2021 Good News about the Pfizer Vaccine On the menu today: some really good news about the effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine against the Brazilian, U.K., and South African variants; a reminder that the more partisan a claim about the pandemic was, the less likely it was to be accurate; and the Lincoln Project tries to pull a Northam. In Your Face, Variants! In the tug of war between pandemic optimism and pandemic pessimism, one of the recurring arguments from the side of pessimism is that the virus is always mutating, mutated versions have in some cases become more contagious and more virulent, and our vaccines either may not work as effectively or, God forbid, may not work at all. One lab experiment offers evidence that variants can slow the antibodies generated by the Pfizer vaccine, but they can't stop it: The Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE showed a high ability to neutralize coronavirus strains first detected in Brazil, the U.K. and South Africa, according to a ...   READ MORE

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