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0 pointsbigbizisverywyz5y ago0 comments

Whilst the consensus seems to be that this variant is spreading faster than other variants - is there any information on exactly how it does so?

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MacsHeadroom5y ago

Not really. But this variant does have novel mutations in sections coding for spike proteins. Whether and how those are functional improvements for the virus are tbd.

See https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.16.423118v1

sroussey5y ago

Increase in the number of spikes per virus.

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