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Originally Posted by Platapus
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A very good article. One very important part of the challenge of fighting viruses is the speed with which many of the strains mutate; AIDS strains were/are a big problem since they tended to mutate very quickly, leaving the medical researchers to constantly be playing 'catch up' with their treatment offerings; from what I've read/heard, Covid-19 is not very quick to mutate, so maybe some sort of vaccine 'cocktail' similar to current flu vaccines can be found; one thing is for certain: Covid-19 is not just going to abruptly end. As long as there are persons who carry the virus untreated or who are asymptomatic, the virus will continue to exist and will be back, maybe in a stronger, mutated form, and there is no immediate magic cure or '"game changer" remedy to stop the virus from coming back; in this, and this only, is Covid-19 anything like the flu...
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