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But it does a lot of testing on them, obviously, before handing them over to manufacturers.

And then we do our own testing on these strains.

So it is...

possible that sometimes we do choose a different strain, but they are very alike in terms of where they sit in terms of the mutations that they have and where they sit in the evolution of the flu virus.

They're usually very close.

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