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Re:Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been myste... by taneq on Thursday June 24, 2021 @06:21AM (#27615771)
I don’t know if it counts as “rapid” given the infected population and time scale involved. Getting from the original COVID-19 to Delta+ in a lab would take a long time compared to in the millions of infected humans ‘in the wild’.
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Re:Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been myste... by sudosysgen on Thursday June 24, 2021 @12:57PM (#27620429)
It's a single nucleotide mutation. I don't see how the dozens of nucleotides from before would have been easy but the last nucleotide would be impossible.
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