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by dchichkov
2275 days ago
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It'd be interesting to understand what evolutionary pressures the combined behaviors of population have on COVID-19. Distancing arguably should create evolutionary pressure towards a weaker, asymptomatic, more contagious virus. And reckless behavior in the segments of population unaffected by the virus may put evolutionary pressure to make it a stronger, but not as contagious virus. (an uninformed opinion of a software engineer / researcher)... |
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This doesn't make sense to me. Distancing reduces number of cases and chances to spread infections, reducing chances for successful mutations.
It seems that instead of having multiple strains you will end up with most resilient strain in the end. But that's probably better as you have to fight a single strain then.