COVID: how worried should we be about the new AY.4.2 lineage of the coronavirus?

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COVID: how worried should we be about the new AY.4.2 lineage of the coronavirus?

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SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, with its spike proteins shown in blue and green [Image: Fusion Medical Animation on Unsplash]

by Matthew Bashton, senior fellow in computational biology and Darren Smith, professor of bacteriophage biology, both at Northumbria University, Newcastle

No sooner than you thought all the talk of new COVID variants was over, there’s news of yet another one: AY.4.2. But what is it, where did it come fro