What the Coronavirus' Mutations Will Mean
The Atlantic The most concerning versions of the virus are not simply mutating—they’re mutating in similar ways. Simoul Alva For most of 2020, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 jumped from human to human, accumulating mutations at a steady rate of two per month—not especially impressive for a virus. These mutations have largely had little effect. But recently, three distinct versions of the virus seem to have independently converged on some of the same mutations, despite being thousands of miles apart in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Brazil. (A mutation is a genetic change; a...
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