This appears to also include revoking the status of the current international student and trainee body at Harvard

If true this would be a horrendously painful hit to many of the World’s
most promising young scientists - w a nearly unquantifiable impact on future discoveries

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When it happens, the virus often becomes more “fit” within that host then starts to replicate faster than the less fit virus within the host

It is Darwinian evolution at high speed

If the “more fit” virus spreads to another similar host (ie human) it can launch an outbreak

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It’s important to add context to this

These types of mutations are truly what we worry about. They are anticipated to happen in a host who gets infected w a virus who may not be optimized for replication of the virus - so the virus adapts to the host

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This is exactly the type of thing we worry about.

The mutations developed anew in this patient have been linked to severe cases elsewhere

Thank goodness the patient didnt (as far as we know) spread to any people or wildlife but this is the real concern…

We must do better

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