Pandemic players are seeing a big resurgence this morning as fears grow over a new COVID-19 variant found in South Africa.
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The World Health Organization has scheduled a special meeting for today to discuss whether the declare the new B.1.1.529 strain a "variant of concern." It carries an unusually large number of mutations associated with increased antibody resistance and is "clearly very different" from previous incarnations.