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Interesting, I wonder if this could explain to some extend different death ratios that are currently blamed on hospital capacity, age etc. - in other words, wha
by mirekrusin 7y ago
Interesting, I wonder if this could explain to some extend different death ratios that are currently blamed on hospital capacity, age etc. - in other words, what if Italy has spread of more danerous mutation kind and Japan has spread of less dangerous one.
- bede 7y agoThe global sequencing effort makes this reasonably straightforward to study. While the prevalance of different strains does vary geographically, new international tranmission events occur so frequently that most places have a handful of circulating strains already [0] [0] https://nextstrain.org/ncov/europe https://nextstrain.org/ncov/europe
- robocat 7y agoTrevor Bedford (who seems to know his shit) opines that different genetic variants are unlikely to have measurably different phenotypes/outcomes. See links here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22799096 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22799096