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Re:Society Will Never Be Free of Covid-19–It’s Time to Embra... by maxerickson on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @05:40PM (#28374053)
We really don't know if/how the virus will mutate.

Especially in the sense of how a given set of mutations will impact transmissibility, virulence and vaccine effectiveness.

Re:Society Will Never Be Free of Covid-19–It’s Time to Embra... by simonh on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @07:47AM (#28378604)
Technically true, we can't predict when or if specific mutations will or won't occur. We do know this virus has in fact already mutated significantly on two of these axes though (virulence and vaccine resistance), as variants have emerged that vary in some degree in those ways, and it seems somewhat optimistic to think it won't continue to do so.

Fortunately it's not mutated too much in terms of vaccine resistance. Delta seems significantly more resistant to single doses than Alpha but a second dose so far does the job. We've only recently exposed the virus to large numbers of vaccinated people though, so there's not been much time for resistant variants to gain an advantage.