Can the ability of a viral variant to pass from human to human be predicted from its nucleic acid sequence?
This may be possible in the future and progress is being made in identifying conserved amino acid sequences associated with past pandemics [5] but we don’t yet know enough about what determines infectivity and virulence to predict the key correlates of transmissibility just from the viral RNA sequence.
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