From the article: "The new coronavirus is mutating—but that’s not a bad thing"
* "Just because the virus is mutating doesn’t mean that it’s suddenly going to become more dangerous… the bulk of the mutations that appear as a virus spreads are either harmful to the virus itself (meaning it is less likely to survive or replicate) or don’t change how it functions."
From the study: "High incidence of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection"
* "the hospital length of stay for patients with a large number of transmission chains is shortening, indicated that the toxicity of SARS-CoV-2 may be reducing in the process of transmission.
From the summary post for: "Discovery of a 382-nt deletion during the early evolution of SARS-CoV-2"
* "The researchers sequenced the genome of a number of COVID19 viruses from a series of infected patients from Singapore. They found that the viral genome had a large deletion that was also witnessed in past epidemics of related viruses (MERS, SARS), especially later in the epidemic. The form with the deletion was less infective and has been attributed to the dying out of these past epidemics. In other words, COVID19 seems to be following the same evolutionary trajectory.
Discovery of a 382-nt deletion during the early evolution of SARS-CoV-2"
From the article: "The new coronavirus is mutating—but that’s not a bad thing"
* "Just because the virus is mutating doesn’t mean that it’s suddenly going to become more dangerous… the bulk of the mutations that appear as a virus spreads are either harmful to the virus itself (meaning it is less likely to survive or replicate) or don’t change how it functions."
https://www.popsci.com/story/health/covid-19-coronavirus-mut...
From the study: "High incidence of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection"
* "the hospital length of stay for patients with a large number of transmission chains is shortening, indicated that the toxicity of SARS-CoV-2 may be reducing in the process of transmission.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.16.20037259v...
From the summary post for: "Discovery of a 382-nt deletion during the early evolution of SARS-CoV-2"
* "The researchers sequenced the genome of a number of COVID19 viruses from a series of infected patients from Singapore. They found that the viral genome had a large deletion that was also witnessed in past epidemics of related viruses (MERS, SARS), especially later in the epidemic. The form with the deletion was less infective and has been attributed to the dying out of these past epidemics. In other words, COVID19 seems to be following the same evolutionary trajectory. Discovery of a 382-nt deletion during the early evolution of SARS-CoV-2"
https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/fl3yqg/some_sarsco...