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WASHIN dem Variants off yer HANDS
Technically, there’s no limit on how many variants a virus can have, and that includes SARS-CoV-2. “There are probably too many variants to count,” says David Cennimo, MD, an infectious disease expert and assistant professor of medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. That’s why he prefers the term “variant of concern” to help describe strains you should actually worry about.
“A variant is concerning if it seems to behave significantly differently from our usual, established norms clinically, in transmissibility, in severity,” he says.
WASHIN dem Variants off yer HANDS
Technically, there’s no limit on how many variants a virus can have, and that includes SARS-CoV-2. “There are probably too many variants to count,” says David Cennimo, MD, an infectious disease expert and assistant professor of medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. That’s why he prefers the term “variant of concern” to help describe strains you should actually worry about.
“A variant is concerning if it seems to behave significantly differently from our usual, established norms clinically, in transmissibility, in severity,” he says.