An antiviral drug used to treat Covid-19 patients could be linked to mutations in the virus, new research suggests.The medication, molnupiravir, works by causing mutations in the virus’s genetic information, or genome, and many of these mutations w.
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The antiviral COVID medication molnupiravir made by Merck can cause mutations in the coronavirus that occasionally spread to other people, according to a study published in the online journal Nature. There’s no evidence that molnupiravir has caused the creation of more transmissible or severe variants of COVID.