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April 20, 2020

Video: Will this virus mutate?

coronavirus , COVID-19 — This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 -- also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19 -- isolated from a patient in the US. Virus particles are shown emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. The spikes on the outer edge of the virus particles give coronaviruses their name, crown-like. Credit: NIAID-RML

Will this virus mutate?

Professor Elizabeth McGraw of Penn State's Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics explains what scientists know about the mutation of viruses in general, what scientists know about mutations of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 specifically, and what implications those mutations could have for public health.

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