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- Title
Don't worry! The next generation would be more resistant to SARS-CoV-2.
- Authors
Bevelacqua, Joseph J.; Mortazavi, Seyed Mohammad Javad
- Abstract
While nobody really knows what will happen in the future with current and future SARS-CoV-2 strains and how they will evolve under different levels of selective pressure, Oberemok et al. state that "Deaths among people of reproductive age will gradually lead to a human population in which the next generations will be more resistant to this virus". Oberemok et al. only focus on the natural selection of humans and ignore the key point that, at least in the case of widespread use of vaccines and antiviral drugs, natural selection of the SARS-CoV-2 will also drive the virus to more mutations through an evolutionary process [[7]]. However, Oberemok et al. entirely ignored the negative role of antiviral drugs in exerting strong selective pressure on the virus and in a misleading manner state "Therefore, it is necessary to control viruses constantly with new drugs developed for use against both new strains of viruses and new species of viruses to save the lives of virus-sensitive people".
- Subjects
SARS-CoV-2; HIV; COVID-19 pandemic; VIRUS diseases; COVID-19
- Publication
Inflammation Research, 2020, Vol 69, Issue 12, p1159
- ISSN
1023-3830
- Publication type
Letter
- DOI
10.1007/s00011-020-01405-2