Doesn’t it depend on which strain you contract?
RE: Doesn’t it depend on which strain you contract?
According to scientific analysis:
https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwaa036/5775463
Two strains of the new coronavirus are spreading around the world, according to an analysis of 103 cases. But the World Health Organization insists that “there is no evidence that the virus has been changing”.
When Xiaolu Tang at Peking University in Beijing and colleagues studied the viral genome taken from 103 cases, they found common mutations at two locations on the genome.
The team identified two types of the virus based on differences in the genome at these two regions:
* 72 were considered to be the “L-type” and
* 29 were classed “S-type”.
A separate analysis by the team suggests that the L-type was derived from the older S-type.
The differences between the two identified strains are tiny. In fact, they can’t really be considered to be separate “strains”. And many of the genetic differences won’t affect the production of proteins, and so won’t change the way the virus works, or the symptoms it causes, he says. One is not more deadly than the other.
In all practical terms, the virus is as it was when it originally emerged,” says Jones. “There’s no evidence it is getting any worse.
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