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This is simply the result of natural selection, there are tons of viruses that are less infectious, but they simply die out.
by aliasEli 5y ago
This is simply the result of natural selection, there are tons of viruses that are less infectious, but they simply die out.
- vcavallo 5y agoIt had this quality seemingly out of the gate, not after a period of selection. that’s part of the problem.
- aliasEli 5y agoThe mechanism that duplicate the virus genome is fairly imprecise, which means that they produce an astronomical number of mutants. The only mutants that we will really notice are the ones that survive. There is nothing sinister about the fact that the very first COVID virus was already adapted to humans because otherwise it would never have been to infect humans.