Addition: the genetic combinations of Omicron and Delta that form when someone is infected by both can be expected to result in new variants with a wide range of properties.
https://twitter.com/math_rachel/status/1477154648838447104
Don’t think about the virus as what it is today but what it might become.
The virus has a very large space of possible options. Omicron has 60 mutations, another combination of 60 mutations will result in very different properties.
The virus has a very large space of possible options. Omicron has 60 mutations, another combination of 60 mutations will result in very different properties.
If we don’t want more possibilities there is one sure way that will prevent it: reducing the amount of virus that is transmitting. We are doing the opposite so far, there is more virus not less.
There are many more than 10^100 (1 with 100 zeros after it) variants with 60 mutations and standard arguments suggest there are more than 10^1000 possible variations that are genetically "this virus".
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