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The rhythm of pre-pandemic life is back around much of the world. “It’s totally possible that some strange new combination of mutations is emerging in some person who is chronically infected and that could spark a new variant,” he said, “but we don’t have the ability to predict that.” The more infections there are, the higher the chances of unpredictable developments. “I know some would love to believe that the pandemic is over,” Moderna Inc.’s chairman, Noubar Afeyan, said in an interview with Bloomberg TV. “But as the saying goes, ‘We may be done with the pandemic, but the pandemic doesn’t seem to be done with us.”’ Another complicating factor is that as countries roll back their testing programs, genetic surveillance is declining as well, Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s Covid technical lead, said at a briefing. “What we don’t know is is how this virus will continue to change,” Van Kerkhove said Wednesday.
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