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.