Mutations

Let’s start with the carrot. The coronavirus mutates, and sometimes that results in a variant that spreads more than the average of its competitors, the unfortunate coronaviruses that do not carry the mutation. There is a British mutant, a South African one, and another recently detected in Japan that comes from Brazil. But don’t worry, because these mutations do not affect the ability of vaccines to impersonate the infectious agent, which is what every vaccine aspires to. If you do it right, our immune system falls into the trap, reacts against the vaccine and stays prepared in case it arrives and …