Unfortunately, delta won't be the end of new coronavirus strains. Here's what could happen in the future.
We’ve never seen anything like SARS-CoV-2 before. We’ve never had a pandemic of this scale with so much global mixing. A variant that pops up in Brazil can be in Japan or the United States in a moment’s notice, Grubaugh said. What happens around the globe is going to impact the rest of the world — we aren’t living in a vacuum. This makes itAll that said, the scientists who study the evolution of viruses have some theories.
Dittmer suspects future variants will become even more transmissible than delta, but he also thinks they’ll cause symptoms that are less severe and are more in line with the common cold. “The virus just wants to infect as many people as possible and the best strategy for that is to make them as little sick as possible,” Dittmer said.
“The key to stopping new variants is to vaccinate so thoroughly that SARS-CoV-2 is not able to find enough new hosts to sustain itself,” Neuman said.
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