Mu: everything you need to know about the new coronavirus variant of interest

The World Health Organization (WHO) has added another coronavirus variant to its list to monitor. It’s called the mu variant and has been designated a variant of interest (VOI). What this means is that mu has genetic differences to the other known variants and is causing infections in multiple countries, so therefore might present a particular threat to public health.
It’s possible that mu’s genetic changes might make it more transmissible, allow it to cause more severe disease and render it more able to escape the immune response driven by vaccines or infection with previous variants. This in turn might leave it less susceptible to treatments.
Note the word might. A VOI is not a variant of concern (VOC), which is a variant that has been proven to acquire one of those characteristics, making it more dangerous and so more consequential. Mu is being monitored closely to see if it should be re-designated as a VOC. We have to hope not.

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.https://theconversation.com/mu-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-coronavirus-variant-of-interest-167154

Mu: everything you need to know about the new coronavirus variant of interest

Mu: everything you need to know about the new coronavirus variant of interest

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