> It's hard to say how this will evolve but there's a lot of evolutionary pressure on viruses to become more transmissible and less deadly. I'd like to think s

> It's hard to say how this will evolve but there's a lot of evolutionary pressure on viruses to become more transmissible and less deadly. I'd like to think so but I fear there's no selective pressure with regards to decreased lethality for COVID-19. An infected person has already spread it far and wide by before they even develop symptoms – if they die after spreading, where's the pressure? > Why less deadly? Because a virus that is too deadly will likely die. It's why the Spanish flu is now just H1N1. The Spanish flu mutated into a deadlier strain first.