STAT January 19, 2021
The coronavirus variants are, in a word, confusing.
By now, you have likely heard about different variants that first raised trouble in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil, and now maybe California — though the jury is very much out on whether that last one is cause for concern. To make a messy alphabet soup even more jumbled, these variants have unwieldy names, and they each contain mutations with unwieldy names of their own. The result is that people are left trying to differentiate among B.1.1.7 and N501Y and E484K and C-3PO.
Wait, sorry, that last one is from “Star Wars.”
The point is that all of this is difficult to keep track of, and it will only grow more...
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