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Does this slow down it's ability to mutate though, potentially allowing for more effective vaccines?
by pfundstein 6y ago
Does this slow down it's ability to mutate though, potentially allowing for more effective vaccines?
- acqq 6y agoInfluenza viruses don't have that mechanism. That doesn't prevent humanity to have working vaccines each year for the currently important influenza viruses. The needed research was already done long ago. But regarding SARS-CoV-2, it's still too early to say anything for sure, we have lost the precious time in not learning enough from the properties of the (2003) SARS-CoV virus, not to mention western world remaining very unprepared for long after the spreading of SARS-CoV-2 started.
- the_af 6y agoWhat about retroviruses such as HIV, where replication errors are very likely? It's almost like replication errors are a feature of HIV which makes it harder to develop a vaccine (of course, most mutations won't be helpful to the virus, but at least some will). (I'm not saying SARS-CoV-2 is the same case)