{"id":56112,"date":"2021-02-15T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardbeliveau.org\/?p=56112"},"modified":"2021-02-15T11:27:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T16:27:59","slug":"vaccination-protects-against-variants-of-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richardbeliveau.org\/en\/vaccination-protects-against-variants-of-the-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccination protects against variants of the coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two recent studies show that the antibodies generated by COVID-19 vaccines retain the ability to neutralize the coronavirus variants that have appeared in recent months. 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