COVID-19: Pfizer deliveries confirmed for Manitoba, walk-in for youth opens in Winnipeg “It’s a good, succinct term that I hope catches people’s attention: ‘variant factory,'” Cynthia Carr tells 680 CJOB.What is that?Carr says it could be the body of anyone who gets COVID-19.“The virus cannot live and thrive outside of a living cell — it needs that cell to survive.”“If you are not vaccinated, you are a target for the virus.
The virus enters in your cell — and once it’s in there, it makes millions of copies.”But sometimes, that frenzied copying process messes up, and mutations are born.“Sometimes they don’t matter, they’re of no consequence, they don’t make the virus stronger,” Carr explains. “But sometimes, it does matter.