i will start with glenys's question, she is from lemington, she she says will a vaccine help to improveng from long covid. ? that a good question. i think it might do, so a vaccine interfering with early infection and disease might prevent that long covid, which is thought to be some sort of immune disease. now of course we don't know enough about it but i think it might just have some benefit, but again, we need to run the experiments to see, but i think biologically it could be possible, yes. thank you. anita asks is the virus mutating and if so will the vaccine be of any use? there are lots of mutations aren't there? there aren't lot, there is one main mutation hand is there is one main mutation hand is the predominant form of covid—19, and we haven't seen this virus mutate very rapidly, but equally the virus isn't under pressure, because we are not, we don't have drugs and vaccines at the moment trying to eliminate it. so it is possible that it will mutate further, like flu, but at the moment we haven't seen a lot of mutations, if it does mutate sufficiently far away from its curren

starting with glenys fox.erfering with early infection and disease might prevent that long—covid which is thought to be some sort of immune disease. we don't know enough about it, but i think it might just don't know enough about it, but i think it mightjust have some benefit. but again we need to run the experiment to see, but i think biologically, it could be possible, yes. thank you very much. anita asks. "is the virus mutating? and, if so, will the vaccine be off any use?" there are lots of mutations? there is one main mutation and that is the predominant form of sars—cov—2, which is covid—19. and we have not seen this virus mutate very rapidly. but equally, the virus isn't under pressure because we don't have drugs and vaccines at the moment trying to eliminate it. so it is possible it will mutate further, like the flu. but at the moment, we haven't seen a lot of mutations. if it does mutate sufficiently far away from its current form, then we will need to child vaccines again. the fact is we are ina chil

i will start with glenys's question.ble, yes. thank you. anita asks, is the virus mutating and if so, will the vaccine be of any use? there are lots of mutations aren't there there there aren't really. there is one main mutation and that is the predominant form of covid—19. and we haven't seen this virus mutate very rapidly, but equally the virus isn't under pressure, because we are not, we don't have drugs and vaccines at the moment trying to eliminate it. so it is possible that it will mutate further, like flu, but at the moment we haven't seen a lot of mutations, if it does mutate sufficiently far away from its current form, then we will need to develop vaccines again, but again, the fact is we are in a very good position, in terms of our speed of being able to develop new vaccines because of the work we have put in on this pandemic. quickly, do viruses upon stains youly become less pathogenic? no they will mutate across all aspects of the generals, and then it is darwin, so survival of the fittest, so they will mutat