And here comes another variant

[jcpro]

WHO says it is monitoring a new Covid variant called 'mu'

The mu variant has mutations that have the potential to evade immunity provided by a previous Covid-19 infection or vaccination, the WHO said.

www.cnbc.com

Hope your passports are up to date and correctly stamped.

 

[kherg007]

It's why snuffing a virus out quickly is essential. Virology 101. Corona viruses in particular.
It's very underappreciated that each time it replicates there is a chance for mutation. Thus letting it run wild almost insures variants.

 

[K Douglas]

It's why snuffing a virus out quickly is essential. Virology 101. Corona viruses in particular.
It's very underappreciated that each time it replicates there is a chance for mutation. Thus letting it run wild almost insures variants.

You don't say. So why didn't SARS COV-1 or MERS mutate into other variants?

 

[mandrill]

You don't say. So why didn't SARS COV-1 or MERS mutate into other variants?

Ok, you tell us.

Give us the links for the scientific explanations. We'll talk about them.

 

[kherg007]

You don't say. So why didn't SARS COV-1 or MERS mutate into other variants?

Not as transmissible. Some also - and usually - mutate to less virulent. If it becomes more deadly and kills too quick it burns out more quickly. That's happened - less virulent - in some of those previous viruses. But they don't replicated millions more times than the current virus. It's why you get a cold every year, and dont become immune to colds. A cold is caused by a corona virus that mutates constantly.

 

[basketcase]

You don't say. So why didn't SARS COV-1 or MERS mutate into other variants?

Because they both had more acute symptoms and very few asymptomatic cases which made it easier to identify and isolate cases.

Or it could be whatever conspiracy theory you're currently trying to push.