Health
The Raging Evolutionary War Between Humans and Covid-19 – WIRED
Fighting the pandemic isn’t only about vaccines and drugs. It’s about understanding how viruses mutate and change inside us, and among us.
The race is on. Vaccines against the virus that causes Covid-19 are needling into shoulders around the world, the tip-of-the-hypodermic spear of a year-long scientific triumph. But that protean virus, like all the things that infect humans and make them sick, jukes and dodges.
Virology versus epidemiology. Vaccinology versus evolution. Mutation versus mutation, transmission versus infection, virus versus vaccine. Start! Your! Engines! The past (horrible, tragic, no-good, very bad) year might have…
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