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Sep 2026
Transmission of mutated SARS-CoV-2 variants is favored by relatively prolonged infections due to delayed immunity
SARS-CoV-2 evolution enhanced viral fitness and immune evasion, extending the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting in millions of excess deaths. Viral diversity is generated within infected individuals, yet the timing and interplay of viral and immunological forces that drive transmissible evolution are incompletely underst...
Katherine Owens, Pierce E. Radecki, S. Tempia et al.
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