The mutated strain, ...
It is not a new strain, it's just a variant. Like the 200,000 variants already isolated from all over the world. SARS-CoV-2 cannot mutate enough to be called a new strain because the spike protein is highly optimized for the human host, so almost all mutations render it useless.
> The mutated strain, ...
It is not a new strain, it's just a variant. Like the 200,000 variants already isolated from all over the world. SARS-CoV-2 cannot mutate enough to be called a new strain because the spike protein is highly optimized for the human host, so almost all mutations render it useless.
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