Co-hosts Jeff Sackmann and Carl Bialik discuss how the virus variants make the pandemic's exponents all the more dangerous, and consider ways to protect more people from outbreaks fueled by the more-contagious mutations. 

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https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/12/virus-mutation-catastrophe/617531/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/world/covid-mutation.html