EYECARE: Coronavirus BRIEFING: The Latest COVID-19 Data What May Have Made COVID-19 So Hard to Contain By Staff Wednesday, November 25, 2020 11:23 AM According to The New York Times, new research has uncovered just what might have made COVID-19 so contagious and so hard to contain: an early mutation, which gave the virus an edge when it comes to infecting hosts. Head over to The New York Times for an explaination on how it all might have gone down.