A Harvard/Oxford team of researchers has developed a tool to predict viral mutations. They say that had it been available at the start of the pandemic, it would have correctly predicted all the Covid mutations that evolved to dominate.

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    1 year ago

    It’s a prediction model that runs a bunch of eventual alternative results. It doesn’t “predict” anything. It just gives you a jillion (industry term) eventualities. Doesn’t mean a thing unless it correctly calculates the actual outcome.