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> If it was killing 50-60% of people infected then yes the selection pressure would be there it isnt killing, but it's isolating them, preventing its spread
by buboard 6y ago
> If it was killing 50-60% of people infected then yes the selection pressure would be there
it isnt killing, but it's isolating them, preventing its spread
- notahacker 6y agoThat's already baked in to human responses to suspected COVID-19 though, and a chance mutation to a less lethal strain would be unlikely to change human responses to an outbreak in a way which benefited the virus' ability to spread.
- buboard 6y agoi assume we re looking for asymptomatic people, they won't have quarantined themselves