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"If you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on, it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective," he said.

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Moderna says its vaccine protects against some variants

The good news, Fauci told CNN in a separate interview Monday, is that current Covid-19 vaccines are likely to be effective against the new variants.

"The sobering news," he added, "(is) as you get more and more replication, you can get more and more of evolution of mutants, which means you always got to be a step ahead of it."

Moderna said Monday its vaccine created antibodies that neutralized Covid-19 variants first found in the UK and South Africa.

Meanwhile, Johnson & Johnson's vaccine is currently being tested in South Africa, the US and Brazil, and those results could provide insight into how well it works against emerging variants, one of its developers said.

it'll give us insights not only into whether or not this vaccine candidate is effective, but it'll also give us insights into whether or not the variants that are circulating in South Africa might be a problem for vaccines," Dr.

6% of the US population has gotten a Covid-19 shot

So far, about 19 million people -- nearly 6% of the US population -- have received at least the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, according to CDC data.

The numbers are a far cry from where some officials hoped the US would be by now, but President Joe Biden said Monday he is hopeful the country could soon be administering 1.5 million vaccines daily.

Since the system's launch Monday morning, more than 32,000 residents had scheduled a vaccine appointment, the governor said.

The governor added as more doses become available, more mass vaccination sites will open up

Chicago will target 15 "high-need communities based on the City's COVID vulnerability index," the mayor's office said in a news release.