The pandemic is indeed going on. We can’t get rid of Sars-CoV-2, we have to live with the virus. That much is now clear. The pathogen is extremely varied and constantly mutates with one and the same goal: multiplication and even more multiplication. However, because we stand in the way of this goal with vaccinations and boosters that have already been adapted, with antibodies from the laboratory and those that we have developed in the body ourselves after surviving an infection, the corona virus tries to trick its way around these barriers – an evolution, which can be tracked in near real time thanks to powerful genetic analysis.
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