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#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Component of Genetic Immune Repertoire?
Coronavirus is not thought to be alive because it doesn't self-replicate. It's something that enters a living cell and then coops it to basically make it its own. Two different strands can infect the body and recombine, so all of this actually magic happens inside hosts. If you stop it from replicating, it'll stop from spreading. I mean, it's not like HIV, which can stay dormant for a long time. Basically coronavirus is just don't do that. They're RNA genomes. So if it's not expressed, it degrades. It doesn't just stick around.
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