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Could sars-cov2 not do the same thing?

• somewhereoutth 5y ago
  No, different virus structure. I believe there may be some possibility of gene swapping with a coinfected cell, but much less than flu - the Covid RNA genome is one long string, as opposed to 8 bundled together - it's easier to mixup separate pieces. Furthermore, Covid does have an error correction mechanism, though not perfect hence the mutations.