15. Consider a harmless SARS-CoV-2 virion that contains a heavily mutated spike protein (one that is different than the spike protein our bodies were programmed to make by getting the vaccine). This particular virion: a. May evade most of the antibodies we made in response to the vaccines. b. Attaches itself to the same ACE2 receptor on our cells as well as the spike protein programmed by the vaccine. c. Enters the human ACE2 receptor on our cells better than the spike protein programmed by the vaccine. d. All of a), b) and c) e. a) and b)
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