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by ya_throw 1611 days ago
1. I absolutely hate the chatty style when it's used to spread the description of a js API over many tedious pages, let alone when it's used for a scientific subject like this one.

2. >SARS CoV2 has a stable genome, its genetics change very slowly.

Is such a misrepresentation it is basically untrue. Coronaviruses are (+)ssRNA viruses, which are not the very fastest-mutating RNA viruses, but mutate much faster than DNA viruses.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Relationship-between-mut...

We don't need to invoke other mechanisms to explain why Covid mutates rapidly. As soon as it was found to be a coronavirus, that fact was already known.