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My assumption was that at least part of the reason for isolation measures is to prevent what happened with the Spanish Flu, where unfettered transmission create
by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
My assumption was that at least part of the reason for isolation measures is to prevent what happened with the Spanish Flu, where unfettered transmission created the conditions for a mutation that turned the U curve for mortality into a W curve.
- catalogia 7y agoIs Covid-19 more likely to suddenly mutate and become more lethal to young adults than, say, some strain of influenza doing that (again)?
- mathdev 7y agoThe opposite. It mutates more slowly than the flu.
- mathdev 7y agoI think it's mostly to avoid the bad press of having to do triage at hospitals, long-term consequences be damned.