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There are no hard rules here. The UK variant is supposedly both more severe and more infectious ( https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n579 https://www.bmj.com/
by YZF 5y ago
There are no hard rules here. The UK variant is supposedly both more severe and more infectious ( https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n579 https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n579 ). The common wisdom there is that something that kills you faster has less chance to transmit but there's nothing precluding something that kills you slowly and is very infectious while it does that.
- throwawayboise 5y agoYes, Ebola is quite contageous but kills so fast it tends to burn out and not spread. AIDS kills you slowly and is infectious while it does that, so it spreads widely.
- spfzero 5y agoBoth are blood-to-blood, rather than respiratory. They are not at all contagious, compared to flus and colds. A lot more deadly, but they can be stopped much more easily. Ebola spread is not stopped so much by it’s deadliness, but by the fact that you can’t get it by just being near someone who has it and is breathing.