3 ms·
Diseases with higher death rates spread less fast. You can't just imagine a disease with one characteristic changed, because that would completely alter it's ep
by Tarq0n 5y ago
Diseases with higher death rates spread less fast. You can't just imagine a disease with one characteristic changed, because that would completely alter it's epidemiological characteristics.
- jfengel 5y agoIt's true that you can't really run with the counterfactuals very easily, but it is entirely possible to have a high death rate and fast spread. HIV is basically 100% deadly. It's not exactly easy to spread, since it requires super-close contact, but that kind of super-close contact is very common. What is slow is its rate of killing you, so that you can be infectious for a long time while not having obvious symptoms. As you say, changes to any of those comes with a complete change in the epidemiology. It's hard to extrapolate.