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Will coronavirus evolve to become less deadly?
- yuriyyakym 5y agoDo you still hear anything about covid? As far as I see, coronavirus is already defeated by Putin and his orcs army.
- unsupp0rted 5y agoIt's true the news media has moved on, but covid doesn't care: cases in Korea (300,000+ per day), New Zealand, Hong Kong have never been higher. And in mainland China too. Covid is still temporarily or permanently ruining life-years all over the world, but wars of aggression make for much more interesting articles, especially when that's new news while covid is old news.
- PKop 5y agoAlready has
- simonblack 5y agoProbability-wise, mutations can make new strains more deadly just as often as less-deadly. Evolution-wise, the more-deadly strains of parasites are less viable long-term, so they die out more rapidly than the less-deadly strains. Think about it. If you have a less-deadly strain, the victim survives longer and can infect more victims than a more-deadly strain that kills off its victims too soon before they get a chance to infect others.
- trinovantes 5y agoIt simply needs to keep the host alive during its incubation period. Whatever happens afterwards doesn't really matter e.g. by the time HIV shows symptoms (AIDS), it's too late for the host and it probably has already infected others.