The coronavirus is mutating — does it matter? (original) (raw)

Different SARS-CoV-2 strains haven’t yet had a major impact on the course of the pandemic, but they might in future.

  1. Ewen Callaway

When COVID-19 spread around the globe this year, David Montefiori wondered how the deadly virus behind the pandemic might be changing as it passed from person to person. Montefiori is a virologist who has spent much of his career studying how chance mutations in HIV help it to evade the immune system. The same thing might happen with SARS-CoV-2, he thought.

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Nature 585, 174-177 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02544-6

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