How the Covid-19 variants are spreading ...Middle East

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Viruses have a singular goal: Get in, copy, copy, copy, get out.But even with ample experience reproducing themselves, viruses still aren’t perfect at it. They make mistakes, like accidentally inserting one nucleotide for another, deleting one, or doubling another. These are known as mutations, and the result is daughter virions (virology speak for “units of viruses outside of host cells”) that aren’t quite clones. Often, these mutations aren’t a big deal. But when mutations prove particularly advantageous for the virus—i.e. help it replicate in some way—they become more prevalent. That leads to a new variant.“If [mutations] don’t spread more, you don’t have to worry about it,” says Florian

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