The issue has never been whether or not there will be variants or subvariants, or even how fast they will spread. We already know that respiratory viruses mutate.
The issue is and has always been how SERIOUS on average the infections are. Are they going to overwhelm our hospitals?
What percentage of those who are infected with these variants or subvariants will die?
*THAT* is the most important question.
What percentage of those who are infected with these variants or subvariants will die?
*THAT* is the most important question.
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It’s really not. The correct question is how many will die? Period. Full stop. If you have 20% death out of 100 infected, that’s 20 dead. If you have 0.1% dead out of 330 million infected, that’s 330,000 dead.
Death count, not rate, is all that matters.
Media and politicians have used variants for fearmongering, exploiting the general public's lack of understanding of molecular biology and virology.
It's been quite extreme. This article is trying to do the same thing.
Btw, I followed the variants from the very start at Nextstrain.
You'd probably like this article promoting Fred Hutchinson.
“with these variants or subvariants will die?
*THAT* is the most important question.”
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Two years ago antibody studies in three different places by three different groups showed that the vast majority of those infected with sars2 did not even know they were.
Only a tiny fraction have died.
Covid hysteria and exploitation has been terrible.