WHO warns new Covid variants could emerge that are fully resistant to vaccines as pandemic drags on

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By Kevin Breuninger

PUBLISHED WED, DEC 29 202111:08 AM ESTUPDATED 45 MIN AGO

The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that new coronavirus variants could emerge during the pandemic that render the current vaccines useless.

“As this pandemic drags on, it’s possible that new variants could evade our countermeasures and become fully resistant to current vaccines or past infection, necessitating vaccine adaptations,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in Geneva.

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