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New coronavirus variants could cause more reinfections, require updated vaccines – Science Magazine
Scientists worry mutations found in Brazil and South Africa could help SARS-CoV-2 evade human antibodies
Relatives attend a COVID-19 victims burial in Manaus, Brazil, on 13 January.
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By Kai KupferschmidtJan. 15, 2021 , 4:55 PM
Sciences COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.
When the number of COVID-19 cases began to rise again in Manaus, Brazil, in December 2020, Nuno Faria was stunned. The reader in virus evolution at Imperial College London and associate professor at the University of Oxford had just co-authored…
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