Coronavirus: What happens when a person is simultaneously infected with two variants? - News Summed Up

Coronavirus: What happens when a person is simultaneously infected with two variants?


Scientists in Brazil recently reported that two people were simultaneously infected with two different variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. This has raised questions about how these viruses may interact in an infected person, and what it could mean for generating new variants. RNA viruses, such as influenza and hepatitis C, generate a relatively large number of errors each time they replicate. The detection of multiple variants in a person could be the result of co-infection by the different variants, or the generation of mutations within the patient after the initial infection. Even if a person is infected with several variants, if they replicate in different parts of the body, they will not interact with each other.


Source: News 24 March 05, 2021 17:48 UTC



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