SARS COV 2 still one strain, but 200 mutations

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198 mutations have been found so far. Some of the virus is very stable. None of the mutations are really enough to call it a separate strain.

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-evolution-explaine-idUSKBN22J1HC

 

Lawrence Young, a professor of molecular oncology at Britain’s University of Warwick, said that while there is “much speculation about the possible emergence of more aggressive strains”, studies so far show that is not the case.

“Overall the SARS-CoV-2 virus does not mutate at a high rate... and there is currently no compelling evidence that the mutations have had a significant effect,” he said

 

The UCL team found 198 mutations in the coronavirus genomes they analysed but said none appear at this stage to be particularly worrying.

 

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It's interesting that the first known case of Covid-19 in France has been traced to Dec 27th.  Moreover, this person had not travelled to China or anywhere.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/man-france-countrys-earliest-covid-19-case/story?id=70536861

[Dan Warnick + 6,100]

4 hours ago, 0R0 said:

198 mutations have been found so far. Some of the virus is very stable. None of the mutations are really enough to call it a separate strain.

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-evolution-explaine-idUSKBN22J1HC

 

Lawrence Young, a professor of molecular oncology at Britain’s University of Warwick, said that while there is “much speculation about the possible emergence of more aggressive strains”, studies so far show that is not the case.

“Overall the SARS-CoV-2 virus does not mutate at a high rate... and there is currently no compelling evidence that the mutations have had a significant effect,” he said

 

The UCL team found 198 mutations in the coronavirus genomes they analysed but said none appear at this stage to be particularly worrying.

 

@0R0 Could you expound on what the significance of that is?