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The counterpoint to that argument is that there very well could be hundreds of artificially induced mutations that could give rise to extremely virulent or extr
by photochemsyn 4y ago
The counterpoint to that argument is that there very well could be hundreds of artificially induced mutations that could give rise to extremely virulent or extremely transmissible strains, and yet that's not proof that such mutations would be at all likely to arise under natural conditions in the wild.
- matthewdgreen 4y agoWe have some very solid examples of independently-arising mutations in SARS-CoV-2. In fact quite a few of the Omicron mutations had been seen in other lab variants.