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Nightmare COVID Variants Are Cracking the Code to Our Immunity

FASTER AND FASTER

The speed of mutations has reached a new height, and the subvariants breaking out around the world now are the most transmissible yet.

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Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast

You might not know it by looking around you at all those unmasked faces, but there’s still an awful lot of novel coronavirus out there.

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