COVID-19 is getting less deadly, But don't expect the media to say so until the presidential election is truly over

The Swedish COVID-19 statistics, as published by Worldometer, suggest that COVID is simultaneously becoming more communicable and less deadly. To see the latest, check out the Daily New Cases and the Daily Deaths on the Worldometer webpage for Sweden. Daily New Cases are rising, suggesting that the disease is getting more communicable. Meanwhile, Daily New Deaths are falling, suggesting that the disease is getting less deadly.

These results are not surprising to those who know about The Evolution of Virulence (PDF) in infectious diseases. Viruses, not having DNA, do not reproduce themselves as precisely as do higher organisms. As a result, there is much more genetic variation within their descendants, resulting in rapid evolution, which:

Increases Communicability. Natural selection favors those virus components that allow the virus to spread to more hosts.
Reduces Deadliness. Natural selection disfavors those virus components that cause the host to die, because a dead host cannot spread the disease.

These factors have been studied extensively in wild populations of the animal world. The first causes the infectious period of a virus to lengthen. The second causes the virus to become less deadly. As a result, almost all viruses found in wild populations are intermediate in severity. They are neither so strong that they debilitate the host nor so weak that the host can quickly overcome them.

We have excellent examples of intermediate-severity viruses in the human world — a bunch of different viruses known as the "common cold." They are not so strong that they kill or debilitate, nor so weak that they can be overcome in less than a week.

The public health authorities have been selecting for decreasing viral symptoms and thus decreasing deadliness in COVID-19.

My sister was very sick and tested positive for Covid. They would not treat her with anything except anti-biotics. In fact she was told to “get out” of the ER. This was a major trauma center hospital in central Fla very recently.

After the 10th day, all with a fever over 100 I convinced her to take mega dose of liposome vit C, (over 10,000 mg 3x day)
With Vit D3 and zinc.

She was fine within two days.

‘and if Biteme, they’ll use it to keep people under their thumb.’

at some point, a Biden administration will have to show a turnaround; many of his supporters are not elites, and cannot afford to be locked down any more than anybody else...Biden gains no advantage by continuing stupid lockdowns, as it appears that even his addled brain has realized that based on recent statements...

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