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Originally Posted by Paul
I'm pretty sure its chances of mutation are low, and random.
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Certainly into something more lethal anyway. Viruses mutate all the time, this one would have mutated loads of times too - there are already many strains of it. It's just most of the time as you say they're random and also don't have a difference.
If there ever was a significant mutation it's likely to make it weaker. A virus which is less likely to kill someone, less likely to make them seriously ill or even better less likely to even give bad symptoms is much more likely to spread than one which is more deadly.