MANILA, Philippines — Mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 can only happen among unvaccinated individuals and the immunocompromised, an infectious disease expert said Thursday. That’s the importance why we need to vaccinate everyone, especially for those unvaccinated because mutation will only occur among those that are unvaccinated, among those that are immunocompromised. So we need protection among these populations so that there will be less mutation and less transmission of this COVID-19 virus,” Solante said in an interview on ABS-CBN News Channel’s Headstart. Solante stressed that those not vaccinated against COVID-19 do not have enough antibodies against the coronavirus. This is where people that are not vaccinated, who are immunocompromised, they will be the reservoir of these viruses.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 30, 2021 03:23 UTC