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Re:U.S. Identifies First Coronavirus Case Without Outbreak Ties by pasquinelli on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:54AM (#22431228)
Viruses undergo natural selection too. A virus that's less lethal has the host as a virus factory for longer. A virus with less overt symptoms is more readily spread to new hosts.
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Re:U.S. Identifies First Coronavirus Case Without Outbreak Ties by totalZero on Thursday February 27, 2020 @02:32AM (#22431420)
The counterexample to this line of thinking is a lethal virus with a lengthy incubation period that can transmit while the host is asymptomatic.
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Re:U.S. Identifies First Coronavirus Case Without Outbreak Ties by pasquinelli on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:05AM (#22431536)
That's the history of syphilis if i understand correctly. It started out as a serious plague that covered its host in oozing sores and killed them in a couple months, now its symptoms are much less severe and it kills in a matter of decades.
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Re:U.S. Identifies First Coronavirus Case Without Outbreak Ties by fxj on Thursday February 27, 2020 @05:25AM (#22432127)
You just described HIV.
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