Recorded on Thursday 14 January 2021, as part of the Royal Society of Medicine’s COVID-19 Series. The emergence of a highly infectious strain of SARS-CoV-2 in the UK has signalled a new chapter in the struggle to control the virus.…

Genetic mutations aren’t as scary as they sound. With RNA viruses, like the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes COVID-19, they’re happening constantly — basically every time it replicates. But not all mutations stick, and not all the ones that stick are…