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    Rapid coronavirus mutations worrying

    Jan 30, 2021 3 minutes
    JOHN M BARRY
    Reuters

    MAKING vaccines is hard. Making vaccines that keep up with mutations is even harder. The race is now on to keep up with the mutating coronavirus.

    Mutations occur when the genetic code of an organism is not copied accurately during cell replication. This is true in humans and viruses, but viruses make orders of magnitude more copying mistakes than humans do. These mutations are random, and the vast majority have no impact on or damage the virus.

    For example, influenza mutates so rapidly that

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