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Yes. Since we didn't properly vaccinate worldwide, it's going to mutate. There's no way new strains won't continue to crop up; this is just how contagious diseases work when you do a half-assed job at stopping them.

Microorganisms mutate at a much faster rate than the species we typically think of in our day to day lives due to their very short generations, so if you want to stop the spread of one, you have to be decisive and thorough, or the mutations will allow the organisms as a whole to adapt to your countermeasures, and it will have been for nothing.

I wish I could say I believe that we'd develop a natural resistance to it, but frankly... well, we don't adapt as fast as this disease does.

I think the only thing left to do is just more permanently establish the international efforts that were made to develop the vaccines, so that we can also rapidly develop vaccines for resistant strains.

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