A person walks past a mural of medical workers in M茅rida, Mexico, in February Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images
The recombinant 鈥渄eltacron鈥 variant of the coronavirus has left many people unsure about the future of the pandemic, amid fears it could combine the delta variant鈥檚 virulence with omicron鈥檚 transmissibility. Recombination, which is essentially the viral version of sex, occurs when a single cell is simultaneously infected with two related viruses, whose genetic material could mix as they replicate.
Dozens of potential recombinant SARS-CoV-2 variants have been identified in recent weeks. So, why are these emerging and how…
