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We don’t know if the deletions already seen in the current genome data set are attenuated or not as nobody has checked. I am suggesting that we check. The bigg
by danieltillett 6y ago
We don’t know if the deletions already seen in the current genome data set are attenuated or not as nobody has checked. I am suggesting that we check.
The bigger point I was making is that there are many deletion mutants out there. We should be looking for more and checking if they are attenuated or not. We might be very unlucky and find there are none, but that seems rather defeatist given we haven’t even tried.
- entee 6y agoFair though why do you think nobody is looking? There are several vaccine efforts, some of which are inactivated virus based. https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/04/23/a-close-look-at-the-frontrunning-coronavirus-vaccines-as-of-april-23 https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/04/23/a-...
- danieltillett 6y agoI don’t know. It is a novel idea as it wasn’t possible more than 10 years ago to search. My personal experience is new ideas struggle to get any support until they are shown to be correct and then everyone says it was always obvious.