variant that is both highly contagious and highly virulent. The possibility of such mutation increases with each unvaccinated individual. Furthermore, with each mutated variant, we likely get further away from the base proteins the original vaccines and Ab naturally developed are targeted to. Vaccination may not prevent infection in all cases, but it does reduce the ability of the Covid virus to proliferate, and reduces the duration of infection, accordingly reducing the opportunity for mutation. We should push vaccination as a means of reducing the possibility of mutation and building something closer to herd immunity, which may arrest the proliferation of future strains.