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As the new variant has been surfaced that causes COVID-19, experts urged caution, saying it would take years, not months, for the virus to evolve enough to render the current vaccines impotent. They added that no one should worry that there is going to be a single catastrophic mutation that suddenly renders all immunity useless. According to The New York Times (NYT), scientists are worried about these variants but are not surprised by them. Researchers have recorded thousands of modifications in the genetic material of the coronavirus as it has hopscotched across the world. Some variants become more common in a population simply by luck, not because the changes somehow supercharge the virus. But as it becomes more difficult for the pathogen to survive because of vaccinations and growing immunity in human populations researchers also expect the virus to gain useful mutations enabling it to spread more easily or to escape detection by the immune system, NYT reported.

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