The Coronavirus Is Mutating. What Does That Mean for Us? - The New York Times

The Coronavirus Is Mutating. What Does That Mean for Us? - The New York Times: 

"Officials in Britain and South Africa claim new variants are more easily transmitted. 

• There’s a lot more to the story, scientists say.

Just as vaccines begin to offer hope for a path out of the pandemic, officials in Britain on Saturday sounded an urgent alarm about what they called a highly contagious new variant of the coronavirus circulating in England.

• ...In South Africa, a similar version of the virus has emerged, which seems to share some of the mutations seen in the British variant. 

That virus has been found in 90 percent of the samples whose genetic sequences have been analyzed in South Africa...Read all.