Have a friend taking Molnupiravir (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molnupir) for a COVID infection and this is honestly some very cool science:

> When the viral RNA polymerase attempts to copy RNA containing molnupiravir, it sometimes interprets it as C and sometimes as U. **This causes more mutations in all downstream copies than the virus can survive, an effect called viral error catastrophe or lethal mutagenesis.**

"viral error catastrophe" is straight out of the WuTang Name Generator

#covid #science #rna

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@d_run Personally I think chain terminators are pretty awesomely named too.

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