Jlang, As discussed previously, covid virions

Jlang,

As discussed previously, covid virions number 10^12 (a billion billion particles per person). Healthy patients presents worlds of opportunity for viral reproduction and mutation.

You're just getting this absolutely and completely wrong.

Healthy people have a mild disease course, with viremia addressed, rendering the infection similar to that of the common cold.

Please recall the high incidence of mildly and asymptomatic covid infections, making control difficult. These patient still have a disease course of a week, necessitating post-exposure quarantines as part of effective contact tracing and isolation.

From the previous discussion:

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For example, a single infectious particle can produce an average of 100,000 viral copies in 10 hours./quote]

Also, please recall that RNA viruses have absurd mutation rates, one substitution mutation on average per replication among the the ~30K nucleotides. Most of these errors will not amount to anything, but that is a huge pool from which a new variant can emerge.

Ohm remains correct.

Again.

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