🦠Covid has nowhere left to go to mutate into a deadly variant.
Covid is unlikely to mutate into a much deadlier variant because there “aren’t many places for the virus to go”, the lead scientist behind the Oxford vaccine has said
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Covid is unlikely to mutate into a much deadlier variant because there “aren’t many places for the virus to go”, the lead scientist behind the Oxford vaccine has said
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⏳Dame Sarah Gilbert explains viruses tend to become less virulent over time as they spread through a population becoming more immune.
Although Dame Sarah said some genetic drift was to be expected - Covid-19 would eventually become like other seasonal coronaviruses
Although Dame Sarah said some genetic drift was to be expected - Covid-19 would eventually become like other seasonal coronaviruses
“We already live with four different human coronaviruses that we don’t really ever think about very much and eventually Sars-CoV-2 will become one of those"
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🔎So far, virus variants which looked like they might be more virulent and evade immunity have been out-competed by the delta variant, which is more infectious.
Experts are still concerned about the beta and lambda variants, but neither has managed a strong foothold in the UK
Experts are still concerned about the beta and lambda variants, but neither has managed a strong foothold in the UK
🧑‍🔬“It’s watch and wait, but delta is top of the list and other variants are not particularly concerning at the moment," said Professor Sharon Peacock, the executive director of the Covid-19 UK Genomics Consortium
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đź’‰Prof Peacock said that vaccinating as many people around the world was the best way to prevent the emergence of worrying mutations.
“If we don’t vaccinate people and there is uncontrolled transmission and infection, then that is the right training ground for the virus"
“If we don’t vaccinate people and there is uncontrolled transmission and infection, then that is the right training ground for the virus"
🌍"So vaccination of the world is not only the morally right thing to do, but the strategically right thing to do if we are going to protect the world”
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