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But drug resistance is already really hard to develop. As you say, there are an almost unfathomable number of -- let's say staph -- bacteria running around, inf
by gcanyon 2y ago
But drug resistance is already really hard to develop. As you say, there are an almost unfathomable number of -- let's say staph -- bacteria running around, infecting millions of people per year, and still it's taken most of a century to develop MRSA. 100 million times might make MRSA v2 take millennia to arrive.
- aziaziazi 2y agoAs we see an exponential grow or the human population, shouldn’t your estimation for v2 be pondered compared to v1 development?
- jajko 2y agoI dont think you understand the word exponential.
- aziaziazi 2y agoI think I do but I made the common mistake of mismatching exponential with accelerated growth. My interrogation hold : aren’t bacteria infections quantity (and therefore duplication and mutation) influenced by the growing number of host?
- klyrs 2y agoActually, the rate of population increase peaked in the 1960s. The growth once seen as exponential is beginning to look like an s-curve, if you pay attention to the derivative.