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The mutations seen so far are minor and don't appear to impact our ability to vaccinate against them.
by howlgarnish 6y ago
The mutations seen so far are minor and don't appear to impact our ability to vaccinate against them.
- rq1 6y agoThere are reported cases of people who built up immunity against the Chinese strain and got infected with the European strain while still having antibodies for the first one. Danish are killing 17M minks because of a novel mutation that infected 12 people (reported).
- snovv_crash 6y agoEverybody also produces different antibodies, potentially targeting different aspects of the virus. Having a vaccine means you can make sure everyone gets the 'right' antibodies that generalize the best.
- woofie11 6y agoRate of mutations is directly proportional to number of viruses out there. We're having exponential growth in the amount of COVID19 (with a slow exponent, with social distancing, but exponential none-the-less). That we've seen mutations back when there was a tiny fraction of the cases we have today is a very bad sign. If it jumps species, as we saw with mink, we may have a reservoir in nature with no control. It will mutate and periodically jump back to humans.