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Lambda is still a VOI not a VOC even after months of monitoring. There might still be other variants after delta but at some point it cannot become infinitely
by lamontcg 5y ago
Lambda is still a VOI not a VOC even after months of monitoring. There might still be other variants after delta but at some point it cannot become infinitely transmissible and virulent. It also won't be able to become more transmissible and virulent while also achieving complete immune escape (complete escape likely isn't even possible from T-cells). Similar to the 1918 pandemic the worst case virus is likely to be at the tail end of the first round of the pandemic, the endemic virus will be less virulent.