The Raging Evolutionary War Between Humans and Covid-19 | WIRED

The Raging Evolutionary War Between Humans and Covid-19 | WIRED This is one of the better, recent articles on Covid mutation and worth checking out. All acknowledged the dangerous game of chicken that humanity is playing with viral evolution right now, but they also said that any vaccination was, at this point, better than none, or trying to game-theory the game. And so far, the vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 seem very effective. “I wouldn’t underestimate, evolutionarily speaking, what even a not-super-great vaccine can do. It’s like, yeah, maybe transmission happens, but maybe the bottleneck is tighter, or fewer viruses make it across. That might be enough to slow the virus down enough that it just peters out over time,” Lauring says. “You start reducing these numbers in every way, you cut down the chances for these mutations to take off. I’m not shedding as much, not as many viruses get across, other people have enough immunity that those few viruses, it’s like, boop, no problem.”