But there's not just one way that sequence can occur. It could be at any point in the genome. A google search tells me the genome is 29.903 bases long, and if we assume it could occur at any point that's 274877906944/29903 = 9192318 (a bit less than one million).
But of course this isn't the only sequence that would be notable. We have to account at least for every patented sequence, because each of them would be newsworthy, right? This source claims that over 40K human DNA sequences have been patented. Now COVID isn't DNA nor is human, but we have to make some simplifying assumptions here since I couldn't find the data on patented RNA sequences.
So we have 9192318/40000= 229.8. We could bring that number even further down if we consider how some sequences are more useful than others and thus more likely to appear naturally again and again (and those patented sequences are more likely to be notable since they wouldn't be patented otherwise) but that's probably beyond my capabilities and you get the point.
But there's not just one way that sequence can occur. It could be at any point in the genome. A google search tells me the genome is 29.903 bases long, and if we assume it could occur at any point that's 274877906944/29903 = 9192318 (a bit less than one million).
But of course this isn't the only sequence that would be notable. We have to account at least for every patented sequence, because each of them would be newsworthy, right? This source claims that over 40K human DNA sequences have been patented. Now COVID isn't DNA nor is human, but we have to make some simplifying assumptions here since I couldn't find the data on patented RNA sequences.
So we have 9192318/40000= 229.8. We could bring that number even further down if we consider how some sequences are more useful than others and thus more likely to appear naturally again and again (and those patented sequences are more likely to be notable since they wouldn't be patented otherwise) but that's probably beyond my capabilities and you get the point.
But there's not just one way that sequence can occur. It could be at any point in the genome. A google search tells me the genome is 29.903 bases long, and if we assume it could occur at any point that's 274877906944/29903 = 9192318 (a bit less than one million).
But of course this isn't the only sequence that would be notable. We have to account at least for every patented sequence, because each of them would be newsworthy, right? This source claims that over 40K human DNA sequences have been patented. Now COVID isn't DNA nor is human, but we have to make some simplifying assumptions here since I couldn't find the data on patented RNA sequences.
So we have 9192318/40000= 229.8. We could bring that number even further down if we consider how some sequences are more useful than others and thus more likely to appear naturally again and again (and those patented sequences are more likely to be notable since they wouldn't be patented otherwise) but that's probably beyond my capabilities and you get the point.
But there's not just one way that sequence can occur. It could be at any point in the genome. A google search tells me the genome is 29.903 bases long, and if we assume it could occur at any point that's 274877906944/29903 = 9192318 (a bit less than one million).
But of course this isn't the only sequence that would be notable. We have to account at least for every patented sequence, because each of them would be newsworthy, right? This source claims that over 40K human DNA sequences have been patented. Now COVID isn't DNA nor is human, but we have to make some simplifying assumptions here since I couldn't find the data on patented RNA sequences.
So we have 9192318/40000= 229.8. We could bring that number even further down if we consider how some sequences are more useful than others and thus more likely to appear naturally again and again (and those patented sequences are more likely to be notable since they wouldn't be patented otherwise) but that's probably beyond my capabilities and you get the point.