Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection

Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by WanderPanda on Monday November 09, 2020 @01:43PM (#25038093)

> Mutations aren't a serious concern. Because when viruses mutate it's the strains that are more infectious and less lethal that win out

What if it has the contagiousness of covid but the long term lethality of hiv? The long term lethality would have low evolutionary pressure to be less harsh to its host as the implications only follow after many infectious years.

Is there anything fundamentally prohibiting the emergence of such a virus, or are we just lucky?

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Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by Thiez on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:25PM (#25038702)

Virusses mutate all the time. What if a normal flu virus mutates and kills us all? There is no reason to believe that covid is more likely to become more lethal compared to any other type of virus.

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Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by bigbubba on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:03PM (#25038364)

> What if it has the contagiousness of covid but the long term lethality of hiv?

What if we get hit by a comet?

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Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by WanderPanda on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @01:53AM (#25056110)

To me it's not so obvious that the probabilities are that low, thats why I was asking

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