These sort of articles just accentuate my sense that we're living in a post fact world.<p>Is this legitimate research? Or cranky shit spat out by anti-vax zealots?<p>I guess I'll just have to wait for Scott Alexander to get around to reading this, and put in the hundred hours or so necessary to search through the papers and find out what the truth is.
"Omicrons (B.1.1.529) most recent common ancestor is AV.1. Relative to this MRCA, Omicron has 25 nonsynonymous and 1 synonymous mutation in Spike, and 13 nonsynonymous and 6 synonymous mutations in the entire rest of the genome."<p>This seems improbable, but AFAICT you wouldn't expect it even in lab passaging.