Covid-19: Proteins, Mutations, Variants, Strains

Deepti Pradhan
8 min readFeb 8, 2021

Current vaccines appear to be less effective against newly emerging more transmissible SARS-CoV-2 variants — this is not a time to slip back to pre-Covid times.

To say that the last year has been filled with dark clouds and been extremely difficult for the world, would be an understatement. Although not easy to find them, there have been a few silver linings — no matter how few and far they may be. Science and scientists, in particular virologists, immunologists, and epidemiologists, have gained prominence. Careers have been launched, and careers…

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Deepti Pradhan

Employed at Yale University, Deepti is primarily a scientist & patient advocate. She runs Tilde Cafe, a forum to make science accessible (www.tildecafe.org)