Researchers discover vaccine-resistant, COVID-like virus ‘likely capable of infecting humans’

A team led by researchers from Washington State University’s Paul G. Allen School for Global Health has discovered a virus in a Russian bat similar to the virus behind COVID-19 that is “likely capable of infecting humans” and would be resistant to current vaccines, according to a news release.

Researchers discovered that the virus – which they are dubbing Khosta-2 – could be capable of infecting humans, and was resistant to antibodies produced by the COVID-19 vaccine.

Both Khosta-2 and SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19, belong to the same subcategory of coronaviruses.

...