The other day, in a write-up by the Director of the UCL Genetics Institute, I learned that the SARS-Cov2 virus has thousands of different strains but none appear to be functionally different from each other. This was a surprise because there's so much talk about this or that strain being more or less aggressive or infective or whatever. Comparing what scientists write to what social media or the news says often leads to such surprises nowadays. This man wrote something else which I found very interesting. He said that in the coming months, the biggest possible cause of the virus evolving some real functional changes would be the vaccines. Change in characteristics is a response to evolutionary pressure and the vaccines would be a big evolutionary pressure, the biggest that the virus has faced so far.
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