UKRI Stories | What is a virus variant? Covid-19 explained @UKResearchandInnovation | Uploaded March 2022 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
As COVID-19 crossed borders and took root around the world, it wasn’t a matter of IF the virus causing it would mutate — it was when. But how do variants come about, and how do we know which ones to worry about? This video explains.
0:00 Why do we have variants?
0:13 How viruses replicate (and are they alive?)
0:46 How Sars-Cov-2 replicates
1:06 Virus mutations
1:44 The extraordinary effort to track coronavirus mutations
3:36 The Omicron variant
4:12 Vaccines and variants
Interested to know more about how we know what we know about Covid-19? Read our in-depth feature on Professor Sharon Peacock and her fellow variant hunters at COG-UK: medium.com/covid-19-stories-from-the-pandemic/the-covid-19-variant-hunters-keeping-the-virus-under-surveillance-410776c9e6e3
More in depth Covid-19 features: medium.com/covid-19-stories-from-the-pandemic
Prof Peacock's blog on her work with COG-UK ukri.org/blog/genomic-surveillance-in-the-time-of-covid-19
Explainer on the COG-UK blog about common terminology used by virologists: cogconsortium.uk/what-do-virologists-mean-by-mutation-variant-and-strain
News from COG-UK cogconsortium.uk
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As COVID-19 crossed borders and took root around the world, it wasn’t a matter of IF the virus causing it would mutate — it was when. But how do variants come about, and how do we know which ones to worry about? This video explains.
0:00 Why do we have variants?
0:13 How viruses replicate (and are they alive?)
0:46 How Sars-Cov-2 replicates
1:06 Virus mutations
1:44 The extraordinary effort to track coronavirus mutations
3:36 The Omicron variant
4:12 Vaccines and variants
Interested to know more about how we know what we know about Covid-19? Read our in-depth feature on Professor Sharon Peacock and her fellow variant hunters at COG-UK: medium.com/covid-19-stories-from-the-pandemic/the-covid-19-variant-hunters-keeping-the-virus-under-surveillance-410776c9e6e3
More in depth Covid-19 features: medium.com/covid-19-stories-from-the-pandemic
Prof Peacock's blog on her work with COG-UK ukri.org/blog/genomic-surveillance-in-the-time-of-covid-19
Explainer on the COG-UK blog about common terminology used by virologists: cogconsortium.uk/what-do-virologists-mean-by-mutation-variant-and-strain
News from COG-UK cogconsortium.uk
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