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So wouldn't they build up less if everyone is infected with the same strain? And not the strain after 100 previous infections.
by postalrat 5y ago
So wouldn't they build up less if everyone is infected with the same strain? And not the strain after 100 previous infections.
- noxer 5y agoYes because if everyone has variant A and variant A provides some kind of immunity to variant B then there will be less reproduction of B and therefore the chance of mutation becomes lower even if B infect everyone at the same time too. But this is only true if you expect both A and B to reach everyone eventually. Currently we expect that a lot people never had any variant and therefore no mutation could happen in these people. But if they get it all eventually then it just delays mutation.