SUPERVIRUS?

Fauci: The Coronavirus May Have Mutated to Be More Infectious

“The data is showing there’s a single mutation that makes the virus be able to replicate better and maybe have high viral loads,” he said Thursday.

During its rapid spread throughout the world, the new coronavirus may have mutated into a more infectious version of itself, Dr. Anthony Fauci said in an interview Thursday. The head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said, “The data is showing there’s a single mutation that makes the virus be able to replicate better and maybe have high viral loads. We don’t have a connection to whether an individual does worse with this or not; it just seems that the virus replicates better and may be more transmissible.” Though multiple studies have documented the mutation, it is not a certainty that COVID-19 will spread faster or become more deadly—“there’s a little dispute about it,” Fauci added.