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COVID-19 mutation may have helped it transmit, infect at a higher rate: study

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coronavirus is continuing to mutate, and a recent study believes one of the lastest strains could be more contagious.The study out of Houston was published Wednesday on the preprint server MedRxiv.

It has not been peer-reviewed, meaning the research has yet to be evaluated and should not be used to guide clinical practice.

Mutation that made coronavirus more infectious may make it vulnerable to vaccines, study says The research found the mutation did not make COVID-19 deadlier, but with the spike in coronavirus cases across the U.S.

and Canada, the virus has had opportunities to change and become more infectious.David Morens, a virologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told the Washington Post, that the.

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