Originally Posted by
Mesabah
Yes, but variants don't start emerging from a person until several months into infection, these are very rare infections only in certain types of people.
From the head of Covid variant research at the NIH.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EF_pLZ_y5A
Yeah, that's what I was trying to say, in generalities. I had heard this premise before but not sure that I buy that there's absolutely zero opportunity for variants out of "typical" covid infections but the severity and duration clearly matters a lot (exponentially).