The White House issued a vote of confidence Tuesday that the COVID-19 vaccines are effective against a new virus variant that has caused concern among health experts.

At issue is the so-called “lambda variant,” which the World Health Organization has called a “variant of interest” because it has mutated in a way that could make it more easily passed among humans and may not be nixed by the “neutralizing antibodies” inside the body that the vaccines produce.

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