I like the first sentence.
“A mutation in the protein that allows SARS-CoV-2 to enter cells might make it easier for the virus to spread — or it might not make a difference at all.”
Yep. Honesty at last.
My opinion is over time lower pathogenicity, easier transmission will take place.
That’s based on SCIENCE.
Really, it is, although I’m being a bit facetious above.
But a novel to human zoonotic virus is most likely to follow such a course via natural selection.
a virologist here said that it will have to mutate over time to a weaker version in order not to kill the host and itself.
In theory, it would mutate to spread more easily but be less dangerous. This didnt come from the poster here. Just my supposition.
I think it was the person who discovered HIV that said nature would mutate out the man made virus. Nature doesn’t like to be tinkered with.