One of the craziest things epidemiologists do is called “gain of function” research. This is where scientists take deadly communicable diseases and poke them with enzymes (or something) to make these microscopic killers even more powerful. Then these hopefully not-mad scientists can learn more about the virus and maybe…

One of the reasons it’s so important for everyone to continue wearing masks at this point in the pandemic is to mitigate the number of people from transmitting the virus to one another—as the chance the virus could mutate into something nastier becomes greater. Taking mutation into consideration, it’s great…