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Re:Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against ... by pmiller2 on Thursday April 01, 2021 @04:36PM (#26665692)
It doesn’t matter how likely any individual mutation is to increase transmissibility or resistance. We won’t ever see the ones that decrease transmissibility or resistance, because they’ll be outcompeted by the Brand X virus, as well as any nastier mutants.
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Re:Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against ... by hammock on Friday April 02, 2021 @11:22AM (#26672153)
Then why has it taken this long to see a global pandemic? Surely it must matter to some extent how likely any given mutation is to increase transmissibility or resistance.
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