Coronavirus’s Genetics Not Changing Much, And That Bodes Well For A Vaccine : Shots - Health News : NPR
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“There’s nothing alarming about the way the #coronavirus is mutating or the speed at which it’s mutating,” says Emma Hodcroft, a molecular epidemiologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland. “We don’t think this will be a problem [for vaccines] in the short term.”
“To date, there have been very few mutations observed,” says Peter Thielen, a senior scientist at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. “And any #mutations that we do see are likely not having an effect on the function of the virus itself.”
That’s good news for scientists working to produce an effective vaccine by the end of the year.