United Kingdom officials trace the current surge in COVID-19 cases to a new more easily transmissible variant of the coronavirus that appeared in southeast England in December. Now another new variant has been identified in South Africa. Science writer David Quammen talks with The World’s Marco Werman about whether the COVID-19 virus has adapted in order to outsmart social distancing measures.
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