Not really. But this variant does have novel mutations in sections coding for spike proteins. Whether and how those are functional improvements for the virus ar

Not really. But this variant does have novel mutations in sections coding for spike proteins. Whether and how those are functional improvements for the virus are tbd. See https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.16.423118v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.16.423118v1