So I was a little confused about the definition myself, because when I looked it up a while back my iPhone dictionary suggested both as a definition. Is the ke

So I was a little confused about the definition myself, because when I looked it up a while back my iPhone dictionary suggested both as a definition. Is the key difference that in an infectious disease expert context, virulent means severe and infectious means contagious? I always thought virulent was ability to spread because that’s what viruses do, but that was way before the pandemic.