Nowhere left for Covid to go to mutate into a deadly variant, says Oxford vaccine creator

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The lead scientist behind the Oxford vaccine said that viruses tended to become less virulent over time as they spread through a population which was becoming more immune.

, but neither has managed to get a strong foothold in Britain.

“It has been pretty quiet since delta emerged and it would be nice to think there won’t be any new variants of concern. If I was pushed to predict, I think there will be new variants emerging over time and I think there is still quite a lot of road to travel down with this virus.” to check that new variants were not being imported into Britain as they were the “canary in the coal mine”.

“If we don’t vaccinate people and there is uncontrolled transmission and infection, then that is the right training ground for the virus to really emerge. That is a real variant of concern,” she added.

 

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