COVID Variants Hint at How the Virus Will Evolve
As the world sped towards a pandemic in early 2020, evolutionary biologist Jesse Bloom gazed into the future of SARS-CoV-2. Like many virus specialists at the time, he predicted that the new pathogen would not be eradicated. Rather, it would become endemic—the fifth coronavirus to permanently establish itself in humans, alongside four ‘seasonal’ coronaviruses that … Read more