There is one, and only one strain of SARS-CoV-2
…It is the noise produced by error-prone RNA synthesis by the virus. Viruses with D614S are simply virus isolates. They are not strains of SARS-CoV-2. Because of the founder effect,…
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Offit on vaccines and autism
…prevent microbial contamination. The results of several large epidemiological studies found no connection between autism and thimerosal. Nevertheless, the preservative was removed from most childhood vaccines – probably an error,…
The future of SARS-CoV-2
…through humans over the years, its genome will slowly accumulate mutations as a consequence of error-prone replication. Some of these mutations will be lethal and cause viral replication to cease….
An inborn error of innate immunity leading to severe rhinovirus infections
…As a consequence it will be possible to determine what mutations correlate with unusual disease susceptibility. This information might be used to correct such inborn errors. The child in this…
A WORD on the constraints of influenza virus evolution
Evolution proceeds by selection of mutants that arise by error-prone duplication of nucleic acid genomes. It is believed that mutations that are selected in a gene are dependent on those…