What We Know About The New COVID-19 Variant In Vietnam

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A new variant of COVID-19 has been discovered in Vietnam. It’s a combination of two previous variants first found in the U.K. and India.

Host Peter O’Dowd learns more about its transmissibility and how effective vaccines are against it with Drew Joseph, a reporter with our partners at STAT, the health and medicine publication.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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