CoVid Mutations Not Increasing Viral Transmissibility

Published: Dec. 5, 2020, 7:40 a.m.

 

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As we find ourselves facing a CoVid tsunami, British virologists give us the reassuring news that the known CoVid viral mutations are not making the virus more dangerous.  From University College London comes an analysis of CoVid varieties isolated from over 46,000 patients.

 

The mutations occur for 3 reasons.  First, genetic misfires occur during the viral replication process.  Second, CoVid may interact with other human viruses infecting the same cells.  Finally, our human cells may modify CoVid RNA as they try to protect us from the virus.  The data show that this last mechanism appears to be the most common.

 

CoVid vaccines may induce mutations, but vaccine modification can meet the challenges.

 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19818-2

 

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