A doctor in the Faroe Islands was puzzled by a mysterious pattern: Are there two kinds of coronavirus?

As the epidemic has spread, painstaking work to trace the contagion in the Faroe Islands led a seasoned doctor to wonder: Why is the virus more contagious in some people than others? The Danish institute for contagious disesases, Statens Serum Institut, is now assuming there are two types of coronavirus. This might be the »light at the end of the tunnel«.

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