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The Coronavirus Is Mutating Slowly
That’s a good thing
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1 min readApr 1, 2020
Can SARS-CoV-2 Mutate? Here’s some good news. Senior editor Yasmin Tayag reports that the SARS-CoV-2 virus driving the Covid-19 pandemic appears to be mutating slowly. That’s a good thing, because it means any vaccine we create now is expected to protect people for the long term. Read on for a thoughtful lesson on virus mutations and what it means for Covid-19.