Ask HN: Why haven't the vaccines been updated to combat the variants directly?

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At the very least, an update like that would take quite some time to produce, validate and distribute.

Barclay can do it.

The vaccine still protects against hospitalization, even if it doesn't prevent transmission as well with the novel variants as with the original one.