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Are existing vaccines effective against this new variant?

We simply don't have the data. It's all speculation at this point.

Israel reported one positive case and two suspected, all three vaccinated.

Vaccines only help you not get seriously ill, they don’t seem to help much with preventing covid infection in the first place

don't want to sound smug but I think this is very easy to understand with very basic knowledge about the immune system and some common sense.

I think you're overestimating the average citizen.

At this point those are anecdotes, not data