It just doesn't stop. Virus follows virus, variant after variant. Early in the pandemic, our heads began to spin because we had to learn through genetic analysis that there was not just the one Sars-CoV-2 that had probably discovered us humans as a useful new species at the end of 2019, but a whole assortment of related virus types.

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