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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5353/A.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title=' Can New Variants of the Coronavirus Keep Appearing?' data-article-id='5945'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='13292'>New variants of the coronavirus can keep appearing as long as the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic keeps infecting people. </span> <span data-start-time='13292' data-end-time='18458'>But that does not mean they will be more dangerous.</span> <span data-start-time='18458' data-end-time='29375'>With more than half of the world still not vaccinated, the virus will likely keep finding people to infect. </span> <span data-start-time='29375' data-end-time='36813'>It will then create copies of itself for several months or years to come. </span> <span data-start-time='36813' data-end-time='45063'>And each time a virus makes a copy of itself, a small mutation could happen. </span> <span data-start-time='45063' data-end-time='52500'>Those changes could help the virus survive and become new variants.</span> <span data-start-time='52500' data-end-time='59750'>Andrew Read is a virus expert at Pennsylvania State University. </span> <span data-start-time='59750' data-end-time='72500'>He said when a virus infects a new body, it needs to change itself to agree with the body so it can spread more widely.</span> <span data-start-time='72500' data-end-time='87917'>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that the Delta variant can spread two times faster than earlier versions of the virus.</span> <span data-start-time='87917' data-end-time='98292'>Dr. Adam Lauring is a virus and infectious disease expert at the University of Michigan. </span> <span data-start-time='98292' data-end-time='110000'>He said while the virus could still mutate to become more infectious, it probably would not double the rate it can spread again. </span> <span data-start-time='110000' data-end-time='117229'>Lauring added, “there is not an infinite number of things it can do.”</span> <span data-start-time='117229' data-end-time='122083'>It is possible that the virus could become deadlier. </span> <span data-start-time='122083' data-end-time='126750'>But experts believe it is not likely to happen. </span> <span data-start-time='126750' data-end-time='135313'>Extremely sick people are also less likely to socialize and spread the virus to others.</span> <span data-start-time='135313' data-end-time='148479'>Experts are now watching to see if new variants could be better at avoiding the protection people gain from vaccination and infections.</span> <span data-start-time='148479' data-end-time='160104'>Dr. Joshua Schiffer is a virus expert at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. </span> <span data-start-time='160104' data-end-time='174667'>He said as more people get the shots, the virus would have to spread through people who have some defense against the virus, or immunity, for it to survive.</span> <span data-start-time='174667' data-end-time='183438'>“The virus could take on a mutation that makes the immune response less effective,” he said.</span> <span data-start-time='183438' data-end-time='195063'>If that happens, scientists may suggest that vaccines be changed with new information to fight appearing variants. </span> <span data-start-time='195063' data-end-time='202917'>It would be like how shots for the flu, another virus, are changed every year.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button 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subject</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=18205 data-hint-location='72500' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5353/how_much_faster_can_the_delta_variant_of_covid19_spread.wav'>How much faster can the Delta variant of COVID-19 spread?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='two times faster'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5353/two_times_faster.wav'><span>two times faster</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5353/three_times_faster.wav'><span>three times faster</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5353/four_times_faster.wav'><span>four times faster</span></div><div class='choice' 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