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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by DoingIsLearning on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @01:46AM (#22420917)
> Coronaviruses are more stable, genetically speaking, than the flu.

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?

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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by roywiggins on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:29PM (#22425132)
As far as I can tell, yes:

> 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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus#Replication

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