Everything I've read suggests that Coronaviruses are more stable, genetically speaking, than the flu.
https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/its-possible-...
By more stable you mean less likely to mutate?
Would that mean a vaccine would be more effective in protecting against covid19 than a regular seasonaly changing flu?
> Coronavirus non-structural proteins provide extra fidelity to replication, because they confer a proofreading function, which is lacking in RNA-dependent RNA polymerase enzymes alone
Edit - on the more worrying side of things this article (https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/14-of-recovered-...) was released today saying 14% of recovered patients Guangdong tested positive for the the virus. One of the more annoying things during this is that I have no idea which sources are awful tabloids and which are trustworthy like I do in the anglosphere.
Or are we expecting it to mutate similar to cold n flu viruse?