The origins and potential future of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in the evolving COVID-19 pandemic

As COVID-19 moves from a pandemic to an endemic disease, VOCs continue to pose a global challenge to healthcare due to their increased transmissibility and virulence, and the avoidance of immune immunity. Therefore, a group of Canadian scientists investigated the evolutionary processes involved in the formation of new SARS-CoV-2 VOCs and identified potential steps that could be taken to reduce the appearance of VOCs in the future. Paper published in Current Biology.

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)00878-2