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Re:Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants by slumdev on Monday January 25, 2021 @02:56PM (#25907925)
If anything, this is an argument against lockdowns and masking. Letting asymptomatic and barely-symptomatic people spread more-contagious but less-deadly strains would evolve the virus into a minor nuisance in short order.
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Re:Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants by tsimionescu on Monday January 25, 2021 @03:12PM (#25908122)
That is wildly wrong. As long as the virus is spreading, there are no evolutionary pressures on it to become less deadly.
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Re:Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants by lazide on Monday January 25, 2021 @03:03PM (#25908010)
No it won't - it increases the chances for mutations and variants to form, randomly, increasing the odds that one of them will be more deadly AND more infectious.
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