"Researchers exploring the interaction between the coronavirus and its hosts have discovered that when the... virus infects a human cell, it sets off a ghoulish transformation... [T]he... cell sprouts multi-pronged tentacles studded with viral particles."https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-06-26/inside-the-body-the-coronavirus-is-even-more-sinister-than-scientists-had-realized …
some but not much evolutionary pressure, it does suppress transmission, obviously, when it kills, or when it renders people unable or unwilling to move around, but there is some pressure
