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Colorado officials confirmed the first US case of a new coronavirus variant that was first identified in the UK. The strain may be more transmissible than
All viruses change over time. The more people a virus infects, the more chances it has to mutate into a new variant.
So countries in which the coronavirus is spreading more widely are more likely to see problems like this, experts say.
The surest way to boost the chances of a worrisome coronavirus mutation: let it spread unchecked.
“More infected people means more opportunity for the development of mutations. More movement of people … means new variants can spread faster,” Dr. Shira Doron, an infectious-disease specialist at Tufts Medical Centre, told Business Insider.
When viruses infect a body, they replicate. More spread means more replication, which raises the likelihood of genetic errors. So in places where transmission is high, we are more likely to see a harmful variant emerge, experts say.
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