The Coronavirus may end up slightly modifying the human genome. This is plausible when you look at available literature on what has been called the 'long Covid' against the background of the rapidity with which the virus is mutating. Genome editing through active natural means has easy prehistorical references in the origin of eucariotic cells, for example and in findings relating to the mitochondria, the powerhouse of cells - which are but independent cells that were captured and enslaved to work as power generators of cells. It will take time but the Coronavirus may be going down that lane of making itself our permanent family member by incorporating itself in human DNA and inebriating or hardening us in so doing. Or it could hide there as junk DNA, awaiting activation or playing hard-to-explain roles.
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