Hisner first proposed a new SARS-CoV-2 lineage in June 2022. He has since made more than 100 more proposals, making up about 7% of all submissions. Even during the school year, he has continued to devote an hour every morning and a couple more in the evening to variant-hunting.

He’s become a specialist in identifying variants from chronic infections — rare cases where someone doesn’t clear the virus within a few weeks, offering the virus ample opportunity to mutate and adapt to human hosts. “Almost every major variant, except a few of the recent ones, originated in a chronic infection,” Hisner says. “That’s really under-recognized, so I’m trying to draw attention to that by documenting these lineages.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01047-4

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01047-4

ms spock said:

Hisner first proposed a new SARS-CoV-2 lineage in June 2022. He has since made more than 100 more proposals, making up about 7% of all submissions. Even during the school year, he has continued to devote an hour every morning and a couple more in the evening to variant-hunting.

He’s become a specialist in identifying variants from chronic infections — rare cases where someone doesn’t clear the virus within a few weeks, offering the virus ample opportunity to mutate and adapt to human hosts. “Almost every major variant, except a few of the recent ones, originated in a chronic infection,” Hisner says. “That’s really under-recognized, so I’m trying to draw attention to that by documenting these lineages.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01047-4

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01047-4

Makes sense.

ms spock said:

Hisner first proposed a new SARS-CoV-2 lineage in June 2022. He has since made more than 100 more proposals, making up about 7% of all submissions. Even during the school year, he has continued to devote an hour every morning and a couple more in the evening to variant-hunting.

He’s become a specialist in identifying variants from chronic infections — rare cases where someone doesn’t clear the virus within a few weeks, offering the virus ample opportunity to mutate and adapt to human hosts. “Almost every major variant, except a few of the recent ones, originated in a chronic infection,” Hisner says. “That’s really under-recognized, so I’m trying to draw attention to that by documenting these lineages.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01047-4

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01047-4

Upon entry to a cell, every viral particle made gets a mutation, most of them suck though, terrible at proofreading viruses are.

BTW, Covid is still around here. A close friend of mrs m was diagnosed with covid yesterday.

> Upon entry to a cell, every viral particle made gets a mutation

Glad you people have finally seen the light. I said back in early 2020 that there were already 1000 known variants.

mollwollfumble said:

BTW, Covid is still around here. A close friend of mrs m was diagnosed with covid yesterday.

> Upon entry to a cell, every viral particle made gets a mutation

Glad you people have finally seen the light. I said back in early 2020 that there were already 1000 known variants.

I’m careful not to go into it a midget Texan women told me so

Cymek said:

mollwollfumble said:

BTW, Covid is still around here. A close friend of mrs m was diagnosed with covid yesterday.

> Upon entry to a cell, every viral particle made gets a mutation

Glad you people have finally seen the light. I said back in early 2020 that there were already 1000 known variants.

I’m careful not to go into it a midget Texan women told me so

Sorry height restricted

mollwollfumble said:

BTW, Covid is still around here. A close friend of mrs m was diagnosed with covid yesterday.

> Upon entry to a cell, every viral particle made gets a mutation

Glad you people have finally seen the light. I said back in early 2020 that there were already 1000 known variants.

You say lots of crazy shit and still do.

poikilotherm said:

ms spock said:

Hisner first proposed a new SARS-CoV-2 lineage in June 2022. He has since made more than 100 more proposals, making up about 7% of all submissions. Even during the school year, he has continued to devote an hour every morning and a couple more in the evening to variant-hunting.

He’s become a specialist in identifying variants from chronic infections — rare cases where someone doesn’t clear the virus within a few weeks, offering the virus ample opportunity to mutate and adapt to human hosts. “Almost every major variant, except a few of the recent ones, originated in a chronic infection,” Hisner says. “That’s really under-recognized, so I’m trying to draw attention to that by documenting these lineages.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01047-4

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01047-4

Upon entry to a cell, every viral particle made gets a mutation, most of them suck though, terrible at proofreading viruses are.

:)