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….did you continue reading the article? It says the paragraph you quoted was proven incorrect and SARS-Cov-2 is now mutating 4x faster than seasonal flu. Your o
by graeme 5y ago
….did you continue reading the article? It says the paragraph you quoted was proven incorrect and SARS-Cov-2 is now mutating 4x faster than seasonal flu. Your own article shows you’re wrong.
“ Last month, Kistler and her colleagues at the University of Washington published a new metric to measure how quickly SARS-CoV-2 is evolving as it adapts to living inside humans. When Kistler first saw the value, she was shocked. "SARS-CoV-2's rate of adaptation is remarkably high right now," she says, "like roughly four times higher for SARS-CoV-2 than it is for seasonal flu."
But please, continue attacking people.
You perhaps missed this because you ignored my central point, which is that production of mutations is a result of mutability multiplied by transmission. SARS-Cov-2 transmission numbers dwarf typical flu caseloads.
The paper you cited only looks at mutability. The AstraZeneca article is an explainer with no new research. And it’s from February, pre-Delta.