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“In fact it hasn’t been shown to extremely mild”. Where have you heard this? I agree much too early to know from sure but all initial reporting has this varia
by roody15 5y ago
“In fact it hasn’t been shown to extremely mild”.
Where have you heard this? I agree much too early to know from sure but all initial reporting has this variant shown to be quite mild.
- 13415 5y agoGP said it hasn't been shown to be extremely mild, not that it has been shown not to be extremely mild. It's too early to tell since the first known cases were skewed towards young people.
- jsnell 5y agoThe doctor from South Africa making that claim seems to have been basing it on a couple of dozen very self-selecting patients at her private practice. The reality is that the hospitalizations are increasing rapidly in South Africa. https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1466480120215048199 https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1466480120215048199 It might be a bit milder (though we won't know for a while, there's a lot of confounding factors and data lag). It could also be a bit more seriousl. But it seems very unlikely to be an order of magnitude milder.