🦠A NEW #SARSCoV2 VARIANT just identified in South Africa.
It has mutated so quickly and so far that it is now the most mutated variant found to date, involving potential problems for 1.0 vaccines. #C12variant is almost twice as fast as the others' ʀ₀🧵medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
#COVID Let’s visualize how much farther and faster the new #C12 variant.
It gets worse with #C12… it has a 1.7x to 1.8x faster mutation rate than the average of all other #Covid_19 variants!