Vaughn Cooper, alumni fellow (2000-03) and professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Pittsburgh, commented on newly spreading misinformation about the evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 variant XBB 1.5. “XBB did not evolve because people were vaccinated,” said Cooper, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Pittsburgh. “The way it evolved, let’s be straight, is because people were infected by multiple viruses at the same time.” Read the Washington Post article.
