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Yes. Also evolution tends to favor making diseases better adapted to their hosts and note virulent, but less deadly. We have a number of Coronaviruses endemic
by eloff 6y ago
Yes. Also evolution tends to favor making diseases better adapted to their hosts and note virulent, but less deadly.
We have a number of Coronaviruses endemic to humans that cause the common cold (among other viruses.) That's probably how covid19 would turn out, left to its own devices.
- estaseuropano 6y agoThat's not correct. The virus doesn't care whether you die or heal. It cares how long you are contagious, so generally the time until death after infection tends to stretch, not general deadliness.