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Recombination: A Covid Superpower?
An immunocompromised patient held onto the same coronavirus infection for 154 days.
When doctors sequenced the virus samples, they found MORE than 20 #COVID19 mutations, via @NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/02/05/964447070/where-did-the-coronavirus-variants-come-from
An immunocompromised patient held onto the same coronavirus infection for 154 days.
When doctors sequenced the virus samples, they found MORE than 20 #COVID19 mutations, via @NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/02/05/964447070/where-did-the-coronavirus-variants-come-from
A flurry of new research:
Scientists are looking into whether “recombination” may be allowing multiple variants to combine within the human body to form dangerous new versions of #COVID19 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/health/covid-variants-genome-recombination.html?referringSource=articleShare
Scientists are looking into whether “recombination” may be allowing multiple variants to combine within the human body to form dangerous new versions of #COVID19 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/health/covid-variants-genome-recombination.html?referringSource=articleShare
Leading vaccine scientists are calling for a rethink of the goals of vaccination programmes, saying that herd immunity through vaccination is unlikely to be possible because of the emergence of #COVID19 variants https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/07/scientists-call-for-rethink-as-doubts-grow-about-achieving-herd-immunity
U.K. coronavirus variant spreading rapidly through United States, study finds
#COVID19 https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/ukvariant-coronavirus-us-spread/2021/02/07/a197dbc2-680a-11eb-8468-21bc48f07fe5_story.html
#COVID19 https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/ukvariant-coronavirus-us-spread/2021/02/07/a197dbc2-680a-11eb-8468-21bc48f07fe5_story.html
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