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Will creating vaccines for the new strains of COVID be much faster?

Now that the first COVID-19 vaccines were created, will the creation of vaccines for the new strains be much quicker?

Do the vaccines only need a small alteration to combat a new strain?
gpt
As far as I’m aware we won’t need new vaccines for these new strains as they aren’t different enough to not be recognized by our immune system following immunization. We create many antibodies following vaccination all of them very slightly different from each other which gives us a wide enough spectrum of antigens to detect.