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Rare COVID reactions might hold key to variant-proof vaccines

Some people mount an immune response able to fend off a menagerie of coronavirus variants.
  1. Ewen Callaway
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Penny Moore was one of the first scientists to show that a coronavirus variant identified in South Africa could dodge the immune system. So the virologist was expecting more grim news when she tested the immune responses of people who had been infected with that variant, named B.1.351.

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Nature 592, 20-21 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00722-8

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