SciShow: There Probably Aren't Different Strains of SARS-CoV-2 (Yet)

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Content of the Lesson: Scientists are closely watching SARS-CoV-2 to track mutations and see if it's developed into different strains. So, has it? Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/vaccine-selection.htm https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/coronavirus-strains-transmissible/611239/ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/30/science/coronavirus-mutations.html https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/04/why-covid-19-mild-some-deadly-others https://www.neb.com/products/pcr-qpcr-and-amplification-technologies/pcr-qpcr-and-amplification-technologies/dna-polymerase-proofreading https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7174922/ https://bedford.io/blog/ncov-cryptic-transmission/ https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-mutation-rate.html https://theconversation.com/the-coronavirus-looks-less-deadly-than-first-reported-but-its-definitely-not-just-a-flu-133526 https://mra.asm.org/content/9/11/e00169-20 https://www.popsci.com/story/health/covid-19-coronavirus-mutates-changes/ https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jmv.25902 https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwaa036/5775463 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6918e2.htm?s_cid%3Dmm6918e2_w https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20056929v2 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/jmv.25902 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7180377/ https://chemrxiv.org/articles/Targeting_SARS-CoV-2_Spike_Protein_of_COVID-19_with_Naturally_Occurring_Phytochemicals_An_in_Silco_Study_for_Drug_Development/12094203/1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.29.069054v1 https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id%3D10.1371/journal.pbio.3000003 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0690-4%23article-info https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/us/new-york-city-coronavirus-outbreak.html


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