...been saying for like a year that the biggest problem with SARS-CoV-2 is if/when it mutates it's going to branch out into a whole class of viruses, but it could retain the features that make it so difficult to contain e.g. subsymptomatic, airborne spread. but everyone so tired
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i mean this is basically what happened, this is the nightmare scenario imagined, though have gotten very lucky with vaccines, so we're still in the fight... nobody really has the psychological resources free to take these 'variants of concern' or double mutants seriously enough
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What seems unexpected is that the virulent strains can be more deadly. It's usually the case that as diseases mutate to enhance their transmission, they become less deadly to the host. But that's not an iron clad rule, and for SARS it seems generally not to be the case.
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at the time, i pointed out that this conventional wisdom fails to apply to the extent that presymptomatic/subsymptomatic/asymptomatic spread occurs, in periods before the disease is disabling.
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