but quinn over misreading a grammatical structure
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@icedquinn It wasnt about the gramatical structure, it was about the incorrect facts it inferred (which were still incorrect once you corrected your wording).
@icedquinn Either way, your statement was incorrect.. there is no meaningful link between SAr-COV-2 and the common cold
i said the ones we know about have a lot of mutations, therefore inferred they are highly mutatable.
Depends what you call mutation. Influenza is a DNA based virus. It doesnt mutate in the usual sense of the word, it undergoes recombination. Coronavirus is an RNA based virus so it cant really undergo recombination efficiently so it will mutate much more slowly.
Depends.. testing on a large scale doesnt really sequence the genome every single time. so yea, in that sense your right, we dont really test on a global and massive scale the mutation of every blood sample.
But we do have accurate ways to test mutations and we apply this by sampling smaller populations since thats the only way we could afford to do it.
Thankfully sampling smaller populations and inferring the rate on the whole population, when done correctly, can be fairly accurate.
