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		drenvuk on May 11, 2021 [flagged] \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Current RNA vaccines protect against worrying coro... This does not mention the variant in India: B. 1.617. Excuse my language but fuck the author and this article. They went out of their way to list multiple other variant names but left the word "India" and "B. 1.617" out entirely while proclaiming "Pfizer COVID vaccine protects against worrying coronavirus variants". Is there another strain that's more worrying right now or even on the day that this article was published?

fsh on May 11, 2021 | [–]

Scientist seem to be a lot more worried about B.1.351 than B.1.617. Of course newspapers will always hype up the latest thing that was discovered.

Clewza313 on May 11, 2021 | [–]

The Pfizer vaccine is not used in India, so there's no data on that yet.

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