The vanishing COVID variants: Lessons from gamma, iota and mu - The Japan Times

While understanding omicron remains a critical public health priority, there are lessons to be learned from lesser lineages of the coronavirus.

In early 2021, scientists in Colombia discovered a worrisome new coronavirus variant. This variant, eventually known as mu, had several troubling mutations that experts believed could help it evade t… [+9679 chars]

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