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correlating that severity impact map with the spread-vs-time it suggests that the strain may have been weakening with time (reminds covid?) https://pages.uoreg
by trhway 5y ago
correlating that severity impact map with the spread-vs-time it suggests that the strain may have been weakening with time (reminds covid?)
https://pages.uoregon.edu/dluebke/Reformations441/PlagueStats.html https://pages.uoregon.edu/dluebke/Reformations441/PlagueStat...
- marklubi 5y agoViruses always weaken over time. If they kill their host too quickly, they don't spread.
- matthewmacleod 5y agoThis is a rule-of-thumb guide to selection pressure, rather than some kind of underlying biological fact. We can trivially observe many disease-causing agents to which this doesn’t apply. And yersinia pestis is not a virus.