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This virus doesn’t have to mutate to hide. That’s why patients can have symptoms, have 1-8 negative tests, and then finally have one or more positive tests.

One plausible theory, that a researcher from India submitted based on some serious evidence, that did not get to pre-print, says the virus adds itself to DNA in certain gut bacteria. The bacteria then reproduces normally in the gut until the virus releases into the body and becomes detectable. Current tests identify the virus in RNA form, but not in its DNA form, if any.

A different team, also from India, published a paper that they were forced to retract, that shows the SARS-CoV-2 (formal name), has 4 HIV-1 insertions (one or two very short), and one long SARS insertion, heavily mutated from any known coronavirus. This was ordered to be retracted, but the Indian scientists involved state they stand by their research and its implications.

Short version of implications: viruses, out in the wild, and now infecting people in 40+ countries, have, for the first time, the ability to rearrange DNA without any intervention from people. First known iteration is lethal to between 2-10% of humans, less than 1% for people under age 30, but more than 5% for people over age 60.

If true, this explains several mysteries: how the virus can hide in the human body, how the virus can return after apparently being eradicated from a person, and how the virus can travel through the plumbing system from one apartment to another.