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NEW ORLEANS – An LSU geneticist believes that the coronavirus is mutating in a way that makes it much tougher to fight.
Dr. Lucio Miele of LSU’s New Orleans School Of Medicine reviewed a study showing that the latest type of coronavirus we’ve been seeing in the U.S. and England is more infectious than earlier strains.
The more the virus develops without a vaccine to stop it, the higher the likelihood of additional mutations that will make it more resistant to treatment.
