[Goose]

Interesting, but cell culture results have only a tenuous link to what actually goes on in a human.

Very true. Lots of things that work in vitro don't work in vivo, and even if they do work in say a mouse, they may not work in a human.

I think over time, accumulated mutations would favor the virus getting weaker. It is already an abnormally lethal coronavirus, so the accumulation of random mutations would tend to deviate to the mean, making it less lethal. But that is over a long period of time, probably longer than the 6 months we have been with this.

Don't know about that. However, these guys weren't saying it was more lethal, but rather it was more infectious. More cases, same death rate. Obviously, this is all really early days.

[Goose]

Interesting, but cell culture results have only a tenuous link to what actually goes on in a human.

Very true. Lots of things that work in vitro don't work in vivo, and even if they do work in say a mouse, they may not work in a human.

I think over time, accumulated mutations would favor the virus getting weaker. It is already an abnormally lethal coronavirus, so the accumulation of random mutations would tend to deviate to the mean, making it less lethal. But that is over a long period of time, probably longer than the 6 months we have been with this.

Don't know about that. However, these guys weren't saying it was more lethal, but rather it was more infectious. More cases, same death rate. Obviously, this is all really early days.