Virus Mutating Rapidly

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Viruses mutate, that’s what they do. Vaccines contain antigens to multiple components. Multiple drug therapies are developed to address this.
 
Viruses mutate, and RNA viruses, due to the instability of their genetic material, mutate fairly quickly. But so long as certain features, like the surface proteins that the virus uses to invade a host cell, remain relatively stable, a vaccine is a possibility.
 
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Coronavirus has mutated into at least 30 different strains study finds - The Jerusalem Post

We are screwed. Bad news for the prospect of an effective vaccine.
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Not necessarily. Vaccines work by matching a certain portion of the chemical linkage points. As long as the mutation does not change those particular structures, the vaccine will continue to work. There are already examples of past viruses that have mutated, but for which our vaccines still work. Then there are other viruses, like the seasonal flu, where we have not yet found a vaccine that targets a portion of the virus that does not change from year to year, so we have to keep re-engineering the vaccine every year. As for SARS/Cov2, we don’t yet know what sort of vaccine we might get and whether it will be confused by the mutations.

(Edit: I see that niceatheist has already said essentially the same thing 5 hours earlier.)
 
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Maybe it will mutate itself out of existence. I have read that is a possibility.
 
I heard one of the leaders in the current vaccine research say that naturally occurring immunity, white blood cells, etc, will be of limited affect, but the ultimate vaccine will be much more potent and resistant to infection.
 
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