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Re:Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants by slumdev on Monday January 25, 2021 @02:44PM (#25907781)
SARS-CoV-2, by best estimates (0.3% mortality), is roughly 3x as deadly as the seasonal flu.

The common cold is a coronavirus. It is significantly less deadly than the seasonal flu. We have every reason to believe that a more contagious but less deadly version will resemble the common cold.

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Re:Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants by tsimionescu on Monday January 25, 2021 @03:15PM (#25908160)
SARS1 was also a coronavirus, and it had more than 50% mortality for those infected. The virus strain tells you nothing about its mortality.

SARS-CoV-2 is also only ~3x as deadly as the flu WITH UNPRECEDENTED MEASURES TO CONTAIN IT. In areas where it wasn't contain, such as the initial outbreak in Italy that overwhelmed hospitals, it was 10x or more as deadly as the flu.

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Re:Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants by alicorn on Monday January 25, 2021 @02:48PM (#25907819)
Common cold is caused by a variety of viruses, only a small subset of which is coronaviruses. Look it up.
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Re:Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants by thehappypm on Monday January 25, 2021 @03:13PM (#25908139)
The mortality rate is higher than .3%.

.3% of New York City has already died.

Unless the vast majority of New Yorkers have already contracted the virus, the mortality rate has to be substantially higher than .3%.

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