Scientists also warning of a new strain of the virus that might be even more contagious than covert nineteen this new strain of the coronavirus has become dominant worldwide and appears to be more contagious than the versions that spray and in the early days of the covert nineteen pandemic according to the new study led by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory the LA times see the researchers think that the new strain can spread faster and make people vulnerable to a second infection after the first scientists warned of the new study is noteworthy but said that its conclusions require further