Several tweets from the UK are circulating, alleging that a new variation of the coronavirus was caused by Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. There are two important things to know about this claim: first, the new variant emerged in September of this year and began circulating at low levels in the population recently. Second, Pfizer’s vaccine uses mRNA technology and cannot give recipients an infection of the virus. Experts believe that the current COVID-19 vaccines will work against the variant.
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