Submitted by Esc_ape_artist t3_11asu19 in askscience
Yancy_Farnesworth t1_j9uwkrk wrote
Reply to comment by Ch3mee in Does the common flu vaccine offer any buffer against H5N1 (Bird Flu)? by Esc_ape_artist
> where we have been through like 6 major variants, with a few dozen minor variants, inside 2 years time.
That's the point? It's a relative comparison between the flu virus and the COVID virus, not a claim that COVID doesn't mutate. We would be in deep trouble if COVID had the same potential to mutate that the flu virus does. We're lucky that the flu virus doesn't have the same level of immune evasion/suppression that a lot of coronaviruses have.
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