There is a “Doug” variant?!? Asking for a friend… EDIT So there is! Ha > And you can imagine, it was quite a mouthful. So, we started to call this D to G mut

There is a “Doug” variant?!? Asking for a friend… EDIT So there is! Ha > And you can imagine, it was quite a mouthful. So, we started to call this D to G mutation ‘Doug’, and then any of the other virus sequences that didn’t have this mutation … we called ‘Douglas’, so it was sort of a bit of a private joke within the lab,” she said. “As more mutations came about, we’d come up with a person’s name for them.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/17/nicknames-emerge-for-growing-list-of-covid-variants https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/17/nicknames-emer...