inno innovation. he helps to hunt and identify new variants. so glad you re here, doctor. one of the things i think is misconstrued in the public, new variant, they automatically assume the sky is falling. we don t know. dr. fauci says we re waiting for more information. he says at least what we re looking at now, the cases may not be severe. as someone who studies variants, why might that be? why is it something that we do see historically sometimes, that variants mutate away from sev severity? we know, in general, when we look, for example, at drugpatho reduction of mutations reduce the fitness of those pathogens. makes them less pathogenic, less virulent. for viruses, we often see that as well. as you start accumulating mutations, that the viruses can become less pathogenic, less transmissible. in this particular case, it may