This is not the coronavirus news we need right now

• The latest coronavirus update out of Spain shows something that scientists and researchers have been worried about regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.
  
• The virus seems to be mutating in a way that makes it easier to contract, though it doesn't seem to have affected the virus' deadliness.
• According to the latest numbers from Johns Hopkins University, there have now been more than 45 million reported cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began.

According to the latest coronavirus updates that researchers have been studying, there's a growing sense that the COVID-19 coronavirus which is rampaging across the US and the rest of the world anew right now is not remaining static. That it does, in fact, have the ability to change and mutate into different strains, which has various implications for immunity, and for fighting the pandemic via the all-important weapon of a vaccine.

Accordingly, researchers in European nations like Spain and Switzerland report that a new coronavirus strain has been detected on the continent there, and it very well could end up in America. Researchers in a non-peer-reviewed study explain how the virus genetically morphed into a new variant that spread all over Europe this summer after originating in Spain.

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