Experts Explain How New COVID-19 Variant Is More Contagious

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The CDC says that coronaviruses are named for their crown-like spikes on their surfaces.
But as COVID-19 has replicated there have been small changes in those spike proteins.
“Every time they infect a cell to produce more virus their genetic material has to replicate many times and they make a lot of errors in that replication,” said Dr. Scott Weaver, the director at the Institute for Human Infections & Immunity at UTMB.
The CDC says scientists are mon