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Rivalry between human ideation and virus mutation: two competing means of sustainability
Pascal J Goldschmidt-Clermont1, Alexander J P Goldschmidt2, Roy E Weiss3
1Alzady International LLC, Dean Emeritus, Professor of Medicine Emeritus, Miller School of Medicine University of Miami, Miami, Florida 33136.
Abstract:
For the first time in human history, obtaining a COVID-19 vaccine has become essential for the sustainability of our species. As an amazing product of collective ideation, remarkably safe and efficient vaccines have been invented, tested, distributed, and administered to the population on a voluntary basis. The fast-mutating individual behavior of the virus is probably guided by a similar goal of the sustainability of the species. With this commentary, we analyze and compare two means of sustainability through adaptability: collective ideation in the case of humans and individual mutations in the case of viruses - two very different species whose behaviors are driven by sustainability.
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