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JHU COVID Researcher Predicts Lambda Variant Will 'Run Into a Problem' in the U.S.

"These viruses are all competing with each other for advantage to be the one that survives," Durbin said. "We know that the Lambda variant has some of the same mutations as the Delta variant that we think [will] allow it to be more transmissible, so it would be difficult to outcompete the Delta variant."