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How many more mutations can SARS-CoV-2 undergo?
“There is no organism that stands still,” said McGill’s Shapiro, a CoVaRR-Net member. “Everything continues to mutate and adapt. It will continue to do so. That’s what flu does. That’s to be expected. That shouldn’t be alarming.” The question, said Shapiro, is: Is there a limit to its intrinsic transmissibility, “which is already really, really high.
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