London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline

Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by dehrmann on Sunday May 24, 2020 @12:35AM (#23289113)

I'm not sure if the same thing would apply to a virus that's 0.1-0.5% lethal. Since this is through natural selection, what we're selecting the virus for right now is strains that spread at long distances and through face masks, strains that spread well in a household, and strains that spread will for certain occupations.

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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by tigershark on Sunday May 24, 2020 @04:18AM (#23290054)

Which virus are you speaking about? From the study in Spain with 70000 people covid has a mortality of 1.15%, looking at New York antibody test the mortality is at around 1.5% counting the excess deaths, looking at South Korea that detected pretty much every case the mortality is 2.3%. So in no plausible scenario covid-19 has a 0.1%/0.5% mortality.

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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by bhouston on Sunday May 24, 2020 @09:49AM (#23291493)

Here is a link to some meta-analysis that suggests differently. Note that this is a twitter discussion with an epidemiologist, David Fisman. https://twitter.com/BenHouston3D/status/1260194923816550400?...

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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by bhouston on Sunday May 24, 2020 @09:48AM (#23291481)

And for not showing symptoms for as long as possible, which if it never shows symptoms is the perfect spreader ...

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