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Originally Posted by spiderplant
That's a tricky one. You are right that more infections increase the chances of mutation, but there wouldn't be an evolutionary advantage to the virus developing vaccine resistance if there weren't plenty of vaccinated people to infect.
Just curious - what do the evolution-deniers make of all this rapid evolution going on before our eyes?
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Interesting article on this:
Why England’s COVID ‘freedom day’ alarms researchers
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“All the experience we have with viruses”, says virologist Richard Tedder at Imperial College London, “is that if you let them replicate in a partially immune population, you will select inevitably for [vaccine] escape variants.”
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