Japanese COVID-19 Study Suggests That the Virus Out-Mutated Itself

In Japan, COVID-19 cases peaked in mid-August at over 23,000/day. Now they are down to a couple of hundred. While it is true that they have high vaccination rates and social cooperation with masking, etc., Japan Times reports a possible fascinating development. Ituro Inoue, a geneticist at their National Institute of Genetics, reports that it seems the Delta variant, after clearing out the other variants, eradicated itself!