Do Vaccines Work Against Omicron? Lab Studies Are Coming, But Won’t Tell Whole Story.

In a lab at New York University, a virologist is growing an engineered version of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus. The “pseudovirus” — which can’t infect humans — will be used to understand how well antibodies produced by the COVID-19 vaccines can fight off the variant. Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, a professor of immunobiology at the College of Medicine – Tucson, is interviewed.