How months-long COVID infections could seed dangerous new variants - Nature.com

Tracking SARS-CoV-2 evolution during persistent cases provides insight into the origins of Omicron and other global variants. What can scientists do with this knowledge?

These are mutations that accumulated in the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 during a seven-month-long infection.Illustration by Nik Spencer/Nature; Source: Ref. 1 Virologist Sissy Sonnleitner tracks nea… [+19376 chars]

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