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All viruses mutate! Viruses aren’t living things. They need a host to survive – like the cells in your body. Once a virus enters your body, it reproduces and spreads. The more a virus circulates in a population of people, the more it changes (mutates).
When viruses infect you, they attach to your cells, get inside them, and make copies of their RNA, which helps them spread. If there’s a copying mistake, the RNA gets changed. Scientists call those changes mutations.
Lori has given excellent sites. Mine is just a simple explaination.
Here’s a little light reading for you.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-vs-flu/art-20490339
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/flu-vs-covid19.htm
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-
conditions/coronavirus/expert-answers/covid-variant/faq-20505779
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-does-it-mean-that-the-coronavirus-is-mutating/
Many covid discussion in this group:
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/covid-19/