Dealing with the Social Isolation of the Covid-19 Pandemic
"Sana has been in social isolation for 3 days and she's losing her mind. She wants to go outside, but she can't. Plus, the news keeps reporting scary things. Sana is scared and anxious".
Scientists have been able to identify more than 6,822 mutations in the novel coronavirus, and the study team beamed their lenses on 31 of the most common and frequently-occurring mutations to see how they influence the rate of spread of the virus.
To test if the mutations increase the transmissibility of the virus, the researchers modeled the virus’ evolutionary tree and assessed if a given mutation became increasingly common within a given generation of the viruses in the evolutionary tree. The researchers found no evidence that this was the case.
Read more here – https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2020/may/sars-cov-2-mutations-do-not-appear-increase-transmissibility
