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Newsweek: Coronavirus may have mutated to become more infectious

Published July 4, 2020 at 6:15 am

Doctor Paul McKay, who is working on a vaccine for the 2019-nCoV strain of the novel coronavirus, Covid-19, poses for a photograph using a pipette expresses coronavirus, Covid-19, onto surface protein to apply cell cultures, in a research lab at Imperial College School of Medicine (ICSM) in London on Feb. 10, 2020.

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Scientists believe there are two types of the COVID-19-causing coronavirus, with one more infectious than the other. The mutation affects the spike protein on the virus’s surface, which it uses to invade our cells, according to the study published in the journal Cell.