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It's mutating! - BostonCard - 09-23-2020
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/09/23/houston-coronavirus-mutations/?arc404=true
The mutation might make it easier to transmit, but doesn't appear to affect disease severity.
Of course,
Quote:All viruses accumulate genetic mutations, and most are insignificant, scientists say. Coronaviruses such as SARS-CoV-2 are relatively stable as viruses go, because they have a proofreading mechanism as they replicate.
Here's the link to the un-peer reviewed paper:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.22.20199125v1
BC
RE: It's mutating! - OutsiderFan - 09-23-2020
This WaPo article is pretty much exactly the impetus for my question about vaccine efficacy.
RE: It's mutating! - Griffins78 - 09-23-2020
(09-23-2020, 12:17 PM)OutsiderFan Wrote: This WaPo article is pretty much exactly the impetus for my question about vaccine efficacy.
Quote:“Although we don’t know yet, it is well within the realm of possibility that this coronavirus, when our population-level immunity gets high enough, this coronavirus will find a way to get around our immunity,” Morens said. “If that happened, we’d be in the same situation as with flu. We’ll have to chase the virus and, as it mutates, we’ll have to tinker with our vaccine.”
lex24 - lex24 - 09-23-2020
Yes, eventually this will kill us all. It’s like The Blob. So you might as well have some fun before it gets you......