[chanchar]

Have there been any studies on if the virus can mutate?

[selectodude]

It mutated its way from affecting bats to affecting people. Fortunately, the vast, vast majority of mutations either do nothing or make things actively worse.

https://qbrc.swmed.edu/projects/2019ncov_immuneviewer/

That's the chain of mutations for SARS-Cov-2 they've seen so far.