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ImmortalScientist t1_j2axw8s wrote

Reply to comment by raspberry-cream-pi in UK to need negative Covid test for China arrivals by pipsdontsqueak

Think of every infected person as a new chance for the virus to mutate. There's likely to be tonnes of new variants emerge as a result of the huge surge in China.

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schwinnJV t1_j2cmx2m wrote

Probably closer to every infected cell in every infected person as a new chance, but yeah, not great no matter how you slice it

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closetedpencil t1_j2ehuzb wrote

Isn’t the likelihood of a mutation extremely small though? I’m not saying it’s unlikely here, just wondering since we went through all of 2020 with only two strains of Covid; Delta was in 2021

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