The Covid Race to Watch: Vaccines vs. Variants – The Wall Street Journal

As the Covid-19 pandemic enters its third year, the world is settling in for the moment the disease becomes endemicand less disruptiveat least in the U.S. Against that is the race to vaccinate while anticipating new variants.

The coronavirus that causes Covid-19 has continued to turn up winning numbers in the evolutionary lottery, alighting on mutations that can help it survive and thrive. With uneven Covid-19 vaccine uptake in the developed world and slow rollout in poorer nations, virologists say the virus has ample avenues to generate more variants that could challenge immune defenses developed through vaccination, infection or both.

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