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As the Lubbock Public Health Department continues to vaccinate citizens, the COVID-19 variants throughout the United States present a new threat. Lubbock experts discussed the variants and whether the vaccine protects against them.
Dr. Ron Cook, Lubbock Public Health Authority, said the coronavirus is a RNA virus and is made up of spike proteins. The spikes are made up of three different moieties, three little puzzle pieces as Cook called them.
Sometimes when the virus replicates one of the puzzle pieces changes its shape, this is called a mutation, Cook said.
âIt still fits together, but it changes just a little bit, and our immune system is so efficient that we make antibodies that fit that one type of spike protein,â Cook said. âSo, when that one little piece changes, then it sort of evades the immune system.â
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Thoughts of herd immunity still far off as city continues immunizations
Thoughts of herd immunity still far off as city continues immunizations By Michael Cantu | January 19, 2021 at 3:56 PM CST - Updated January 20 at 7:54 AM
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - With vaccines being slowly distributed in the state and nationally, health experts still encourage social and physical distancing measures.
The key to moving away from the measures is what doctors call herd immunity.
Dr. Victor Test is the chief of pulmonology medicine and critical care at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center and director of Medical Intensive Care Unit at University Medical Center. He said there may be a need to re-think the term.