Variants, Lineages, and Strains of Coronavirus
What defines a new strain of a virus?
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4 min readMay 25, 2020
All viruses mutate. How fast depends on several factors. Viruses with an RNA genome tend to mutate faster than viruses with a DNA genome. This is because RNA viruses have less ability to fix errors when their genetic material is copied to make virus particles inside infected cells. So every time a virus replicates, there…
