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Didn't the Spanish Flu (which was way more virulent) basically evolve in this way?
by lambdaba 5y ago
Didn't the Spanish Flu (which was way more virulent) basically evolve in this way?
- manojlds 5y agoWhat about the original SARS?
- rossdavidh 5y agoThe original SARS had a much higher mortality rate, which meant that trace-and-isolate responses actually had a chance of working. The mortality rate of Covid-19 is nowhere near that of SARS, which actually allows it to kill more people in the end because it can spread stealthily, and no lockdown or trace-and-isolate has worked. There are also more reports of animal reservoirs for Covid-19 than for SARS.
- erhk 5y agoIt also didn't incubate the same way
- mongol 5y agoSARS really seems like a bullet we should be lucky we have dodged
- erhk 5y agoNo, it was never possible for original SARS to have r0 comprobale to nCov19. However that was the fear from the start.
- Pyramus 5y agoAs far as I know the virus H1N1 itself didn't really evolve in the sense that it got milder - all hosts either developed immunity or died off. Now our immune systems encounter one of the endemic, seasonal strains of H1N1 when we are young (or we get a flu vaccine) - however from time to time a new strain of H1N1 emerges that is dissimilar enough, see e.g. 1977 flu or the 2009 flu outbreak.