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This Could Be the Only Way to Beat COVID for Good

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The ever-mutating virus always seems to be one step ahead of our best efforts to contain it. But scientists say there’s a way to change that.

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The novel coronavirus, like all viruses, mutates and evolves. Fast. Variant after variant. Subvariants between the variants.

The virus is active. But our efforts to contain it are reactive.

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