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The Coronavirus Variants Are Here. Can the Vaccines Keep Up? – Yahoo News
The mutations aren’t yet a reason to panic, say doctors and epidemiologists. But they are a reminder that we’re not nearly out of the woods.
As vaccine rollouts ramp upor in some cases, stumble aheadin countries across the world, the SARS-CoV-2 strain has rolled out some new features of its own, primarily in the form of rapid genetic mutations. Some evidence indicates variants of recent months have made the virus more infectious, or in one case, possibly more deadly.
Virus variants are inevitable and often benign. The new coronavirus has likely mutated countless times without attracting the attention of epidemiologists. But new strains…
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