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even if we reach a herd immunity, won’t the virus just mutate in animals until it is effective against our vaccines?
by cyptus 6y ago
even if we reach a herd immunity, won’t the virus just mutate in animals until it is effective against our vaccines?
- caturopath 6y agoThis remains to be seen, and some of the experts guess this isn't a major risk. (Obviously it's possible, but there are scads of other viruses that could mutate until they're deadly in humans, too.)
- Spivak 6y agoRight now the vaccines are effective against current mutations but yes! It’s very likely that we’ll see more than one covid vaccine during our lifetimes as it mutates.
- rolph 6y ago@OP [cyptus] this is a good question, there is no need for animal resivoir to establish variants/mutation as this happens concurrent with human infection as well. @spivak you sound on track, the current thought in the lab is polyvalent vaccine. The problems include mRNA duplex interference, meaning 2 species of mRNA may anneal at complementary regions of the sequence to produce localized folding that derails the translation enzymes of the host.
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- soperj 6y agothey are already making booster shots for the current mutations.