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What stopped the pandemic was omicron that was so explosively contagious that 98+% of the world got it at the time. After that everyone had natural immunity tha
by frm88 1y ago
What stopped the pandemic was omicron that was so explosively contagious that 98+% of the world got it at the time. After that everyone had natural immunity that caused decreasing symptoms every subsequent time you got infected with a new variant.
Source?
There was a study in 2024 that researched what exactly lead to the sudden decline in Covid deaths [0]:
...suggest that a phase transition in the molecular structure of the COVID-19 spike protein made the virus less likely to cause severe infections.
[0] https://www.springer.com/gp/about-springer/media/research-news/all-english-research-news/how-did-the-covid-pandemic-end-so-abruptly-/27488816 https://www.springer.com/gp/about-springer/media/research-ne... click on the link directly to the study. It's a .pdf.