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As more and more variants of SARS-CoV-2 either emerge or make landfall in the United States, the question of whether they’ll be able to bypass the immune defenses we’ve acquired against Covid-19 becomes increasingly pressing.
The official record states that nearly 30 million people across the United States have had Covid-19 … read more
As the scientific community becomes keenly aware of the dangers SARS-CoV-2 variants present, increased sequencing efforts seek to uncover new mutants before they begin to spread widely in the population. Among the new variants discovered in recent weeks is the Japanese variant (B.1.1.248) identified both through … read more
Let’s recap my last few articles on parallel evolution, the term researchers have conceived to describe the ability some viruses have—namely, coronaviruses and influenza—to evolve independently of one another across multiple scales of time and space. Last week I discussed the origins of this theory in influenza research, the recent studies … read more