A Covid drug that has just been approved in virus-stricken causes the to mutate in new ways, a study warns. US and UK researchers identified the new mutations in viral samples taken from dozens of patients given Merck's antiviral Lagevrio.The alterations to the virus did not make it more deadly or infectious, but the experts say it undermines the risk of drugs that work by tinkering with Covid's genetic code.
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