New variants seem scary. Mutations obey laws of biology that make them less frightening than the media & leaders would like. No time for more than this: Corona is tame compared to a diabolical mutating virus called Influenza. We survive new flu each year, so fear not Covid19.https://twitter.com/DanielleFong/status/1356811341953138691 …
this is the referenced paper, https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/955239/NERVTAG_paper_on_variant_of_concern__VOC__B.1.1.7.pdf …) while it demonstrates pretty fine grained data on the set of symptoms vs. percentage of the new variant, it makes no mention at all of the case fatality rate (the focus of this NERVTAG review https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.28.21250680v1.full …pic.twitter.com/wiIrCidlhg
