SARS-CoV-2 Evolution will Accelerate
SARS-CoV-2 is known to be a seasonal virus because the amount of viral transmission depends critically on the temperature . There are higher loads of viral inoculum that are transmitted greater distances when it's cold and absolute humidity is lower, and people are more likely to gather inside together for warmth. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.650493/full This is true of all strains, and we are entering autumn with a higher case count than we had last year. Also, last winter, Alpha was dominant nearly entirely alone, and it's not antigenically very distant from the original S protein. Instead, today, we now have many antigenically distant strains and variants of concern(VoCs). Check the dot plot for cross-immunoreactivity between strains in the following article. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/new-sars-cov-2-variants-have-changed-pandemic-what-will-virus-do-next Through those two factors, we should see new domestic highs in case co...