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Vaccines could affect how the coronavirus evolves - but that's no reason to skip your shot

  • Written by Andrew Read, Professor of Biology, Entomology and Biotechnology, Penn State
Vaccines could affect how the coronavirus evolves - but that's no reason to skip your shotVaccines against COVID-19 are the safest – and fastest – way to prevent the spread of variants.Luis Alvarez/ DigitalVision via Getty Images

Takeaways

  • A 2015 paper on a chicken virus showed vaccines could enable more deadly variants to spread – in chickens.

  • But that outcome is rare. Only a minority of human and animal vaccines have...

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