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> We drew the short straw on this one. Back in the 1918 pandemic, the flu evolved into a less-dangerous form. In this COVID19 situation, we got unlucky twice, a
by brewdad 5y ago
> We drew the short straw on this one. Back in the 1918 pandemic, the flu evolved into a less-dangerous form. In this COVID19 situation, we got unlucky twice, and the virus evolved twice (first to Alpha, then again to Delta).
Wasn't the second wave of the 1918 pandemic the most deadly?[1] To be sure, the current flu variants are much less dangerous than anything from that time though.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Deadly_second_wave_of_late_1918 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Deadly_second_wave...
- dragontamer 5y agohttps://www.montana.edu/diseaseecologylab/covid19blog/posts/19979/virulence-evolution-and-sars-cov-2-1918-h1n1-influenza https://www.montana.edu/diseaseecologylab/covid19blog/posts/... I admit that I forgot about the 2nd wave in 1919. But my understanding is that in 1920 or so, the virus mutated again into a less-virulent form, allowing the pandemic to end.