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Is The Dominant, Mutated Coronavirus Strain More Infectious? Experts Can’t Agree – ScienceAlert
Scientists are pushing back on a new study that says the new coronavirus has mutated to be more transmissible.
No pathogen on Earth is being more closely monitored than the coronavirus.
Scientists have been regularly collecting and genetically sequencing samples of the virus to track how it’s changing. Over time, that monitoring has revealed, one version became more prevalent than the rest: a strain with the mutation dubbed D614G.
According to a new, preliminary study from researchers at Houston Methodist Hospital, that mutated strain was responsible for nearly every COVID-19 infection there this summe…
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