The evolution of the coronavirus is likely to produce dangerous new variants that escape...
A Hong Kong Garrison building in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, as a deadly omicron wave overwhelms the city. Some microbiologists believe more severe strains could be on the way as the virus adapts to dodge natural immunity and vaccines.
“Omicron is not at all a good predictor for the future,” said Dr. Peter Markov, a scientist at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre and lead author of the study. “As an evolutionary virologist, it frustrates me when policymakers invoke the word ‘endemic’ as an excuse to do little or nothing,” Aris Katzourakis, a professor at University of Oxford and an author of the study, wrote earlier this year in the journal
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