[mchusma]

The best reaction to this would be to pressure the NIH to lift the ban on the Astrazeneca vaccine. There is enough stockpiled supply to vaccinate most of the UK quickly and they would have a first mover advantage to getting a bunch of that vaccine. Evidence suggests this varient still has the same spike protein and seems like it would be still prevented by most if not all the vaccines.

[kokx]

The best reaction is to approve a vaccine which does not have a good proven track record? It hasn't been through complete Stage 3 trials, so we don't know if it works or if it works well.

I'm not saying that the Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccine is bad. This is however very unwise. It would definitely erode trust in vaccines if the Oxford/Astrazeneca were to have significant side effects. Which would erode trust in science in the long term.