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> And lastly, infecting so many new hosts opens the possibility of creating a more deadly variants, just by pure chance, due to so much virus replication going
by colordrops 5y ago
> And lastly, infecting so many new hosts opens the possibility of creating a more deadly variants, just by pure chance, due to so much virus replication going on in the hosts.
Isn't this true of the flu as well?
- m4rtink 5y agoI guess ? I wonder whats the magnitude of flu infections vs covid in absolute numbers. Also I guess not all viruses mutate in the same way?
- Gibbon1 5y agoThe flu can easily mutate via reassortment because it's genome is segmented and there is a huge reservoir or human and animal strains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassortment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassortment