Those Covid-19 variants? ‘Don’t worry yet,’ vaccine expert says

On Tuesday, Paul Offit, the vaccine developer and a professor of pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, dropped by, virtually, for a conversation with STAT+ subscribers . During the discussion, he addressed a question on everyone’s mind: How worried should we be about new variants of SARS-CoV-2 , the virus that causes Covid-19?
Offit — who, overall, believes “we’re going to turn the corner,” with the help of vaccines — had plenty of worries. A rare side effect of the vaccines could emerge and scare people away from them, even when the benefits far outweigh its risks. It could take a long time to fix vaccine distribution and manufacturing problems. Read the rest…