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Re:A (possible) solution to Covid-19 by weakstrain on Friday April 10, 2020 @07:23AM (#22831884)
The author is thinking that reversing a deleted zone mutation is hard, but it could be that a simple mutation of the weak strain make it deadly, so my question is: can you guarantee that a new mutation is not going to make this strain deadly?, also the more people with the new strain of the virus, the more the bad mutation could happen.

So I suggest looking for a strain for which we have a mean of killing the virus, that is a weak virus for which we have a general vaccine for expected mutations, if that is possible.

Re:A (possible) solution to Covid-19 by dpratt71 on Friday April 10, 2020 @07:29AM (#22831920)
There are no guarantees in life, but the reason we don't have global pandemics constantly is that mutations that make a virus as dangerous as SARS-Cov-2 are quite rare.
Re:A (possible) solution to Covid-19 by jfoster on Friday April 10, 2020 @08:25AM (#22832316)
There actually has been quite a lot of pandemics over the past 100 or so years. Covid-19 has yet to eclipse at least 3 of them. (1918, 1957, 1968)