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A provisional name given to the natural circumstances related to the virus causing COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2. It relates to the mutation nature of the original strain in the form of how viral organisms being to cause replication errors over time (especially prevalent when having many hosts which exponentially increases the mutation rate) into when the new mutated form of the virus becomes more transmissible or even resistant to current antibodies, treatments, and vaccinations, to which it begins to outcompete other forms of the same virus to become a variant through a process known as natural selection. These variants are most commonly due to an inequity within the distribution of vaccination regimens to prevent COVID-19 and severe symptoms and death. Large wide-scale inoculations will curve this effect until herd immunity is achieved.
Medical Journal: “The new variant of SARS-CoV-2 is thought to be more transmissible.”
The Public: “It’s COVID-21.”
The Public: “It’s COVID-21.”
by MedicinePlus July 6, 2021