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Once you vaccinate for it, it becomes less deadly. Which means there is a new (computable) "most deadly" flu. And, presumably, there is an upper limit to the
by jcl 17y ago
Once you vaccinate for it, it becomes less deadly. Which means there is a new (computable) "most deadly" flu. And, presumably, there is an upper limit to the number of strains our immune systems can remember and defend against.
- Semiapies 17y agoPerhaps; on the other hand, once we have the capability to do something as hard as compute most-deadly-flu, we'll almost necessarily have the immunological understanding to vaccinate against very broad categories of diseases, not merely individual strains.