TWiV 940: Eddie Holmes in on viral origins
This Week in Virology
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Omicron Virus
Omicron is way more infectious and I think probably more virulent as well than the first initial virus, right? So that's adaptation. We've watched... We've watched adaptation in real time for two and a half years. Over the course of period. I think the virus in Wuhan was good enough. That was all. It was good enough to spread in a very dense, well mixed population. By no means would it have been massively outcompeted by the current strains without any immunity at all. Just on sheer infectivity, the modern strains outcompeting Omicron.
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