Coronapod: everything we know about the new COVID variant
Nature Podcast
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4.5 • 893 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In a quickly developing story a new variant, first detected in Botswana, is triggering rapid action among researchers. The variant - currently named B.1.1.529 has more than 30 changes to the spike protein - and the concern is that these mutations may result in increased transmissibility, severity of disease or even antibody evasion.
In this episode of Coronapod, we discuss what we know so far, how scientists are searching for answers and what this could mean for the pandemic.
News: Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert
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| 1:02.3 | Welcome to Corona Pod. |
| 1:05.7 | In this show, we're going to bring you nature's take on the latest COVID-19 developments. |
| 1:11.6 | And we'll be speaking to experts around the world about research during the pandemic. |
| 1:18.0 | We're entering a new era now. We have new COVID strategies. |
| 1:21.8 | There's some new unknowns and we've got a vaccine. |
| 1:28.2 | Hello and welcome to CoronaPod. |
| 1:30.2 | I'm Noah Baker and joining me this week is Features Editor Richard Van Norton. |
| 1:33.4 | Richard, how are you? |
| 1:34.5 | I'm very well, thanks, Noah. |
| 1:35.9 | So we're doing a kind of on the seat of our pants, Corona Pod today because there's |
| 1:40.1 | some very quickly developing news, which is breaking kind of around the world, about a new |
| 1:44.3 | variant that's been detected in South Africa. Richard, give us the latest. What is it that's |
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