A paper stating a mutation to the coronavirus which causes COVID-19 is of 'urgent concern' went viral this week, but experts told Newsweek that's not as worrying as it sounds.
-print website. That means the findings haven't been through the rigorous peer review process required to publish in scientific journals. During a fast-moving time like a pandemic, it can be useful to release data in this way to spark debate on a topic.-2 from around the world are collected, BetteNational Laboratory and colleagues, tracked the evolution of its spike protein up until April 13.
While the team were right to assess how the virus and its spike protein has mutated, experts who spoke toargued the claims about these changing how transmissible the virus were overstated. And just because a mutation is popping up frequently in a population doesn't necessarily reflect a change in the virus' function. Their claims based on computational models would need to be verified in lab studies using virus samples, they said.
"We are just observing how the virus spreads and what mutations are present; laboratory experiments are needed to see exactly how these mutations are affecting the virus and to determine if they affect virus transmission, replication, disease or immune interactions."gave the example of the viruses which cause Ebola and severe acute respiratory syndrome .
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