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pbmus

(12,422 posts) Tue Apr 21, 2020, 04:15 PM Apr 2020

Coronavirus has mutated 30 times...

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I read somewhere it changes every 15 days...

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Coronavirus has mutated 30 times... (Original Post) pbmus Apr 2020 OP

This is one nasty virus. Marie Marie Apr 2020 #1

Yes. nt Blue_true Apr 2020 #4

Article title is misleading. Phoenix61 Apr 2020 #2

That is a slippery little sucker. The fast mutation rate is a problem when things come to Blue_true Apr 2020 #3

IMHO, a cocktail, similar to HIV, will be found years before vaccine.. pbmus Apr 2020 #5

Maybe, seems more likely. nt Blue_true Apr 2020 #6

This is why I haven't left my home in over a month. smirkymonkey Apr 2020 #7

How do you know? Sugarcoated Apr 2020 #8

Not sure. I just read that the strain on the east coast was traced back to Europe and smirkymonkey Apr 2020 #9

Marie Marie

(9,999 posts)

1. This is one nasty virus.

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2020, 04:23 PM

Apr 2020

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)

4. Yes. nt

Reply to Marie Marie (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 21, 2020, 05:43 PM

Apr 2020

Phoenix61

(17,006 posts)

2. Article title is misleading.

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2020, 05:27 PM

Apr 2020

However, this is a lab study, a description of possibilities, it does not address how the virus moves in the human population where many factors, usually summed up as virus “fitness”, apply at the same time.

"Virus tracking so far has not indicated any trend towards a version 2 of the virus.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)

3. That is a slippery little sucker. The fast mutation rate is a problem when things come to

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2020, 05:42 PM

Apr 2020

a vaccine or cure.

pbmus

(12,422 posts)

5. IMHO, a cocktail, similar to HIV, will be found years before vaccine..

Reply to Blue_true (Reply #3)

Tue Apr 21, 2020, 05:47 PM

Apr 2020

Possibly as soon as this year..

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)

6. Maybe, seems more likely. nt

Reply to pbmus (Reply #5)

Tue Apr 21, 2020, 07:14 PM

Apr 2020

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

7. This is why I haven't left my home in over a month.

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2020, 07:19 PM

Apr 2020

Apparently we have the European strain on the east coast and I am terrified of catching it. I don't know why so many people are still so casual about it.

Sugarcoated

(7,724 posts)

8. How do you know?

Reply to smirkymonkey (Reply #7)

Thu Apr 23, 2020, 12:32 AM

Apr 2020

Are the symptoms different here on the east coast?

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

9. Not sure. I just read that the strain on the east coast was traced back to Europe and

Reply to Sugarcoated (Reply #8)

Thu Apr 23, 2020, 12:49 AM

Apr 2020

not China, unlike the strains on the west coast. I'm not sure how they figured that out, but I suppose a Google search might turn up some more detail

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