Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S...
by Pyramus on Thursday July 29, 2021 @05:45AM
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Not sure if that's what parent meant - these are extreme cases. In general (e.g. in the case of SARS-Cov2) evolutionary pressure will increase transmissibility but is indifferent to lethality (again up to the extreme point where lethality precludes transmission).
Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S...
by tpxl on Friday July 30, 2021 @06:14AM
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Won't any amount of lethality preclude some transmission?
Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S...
by Pyramus on Friday July 30, 2021 @06:56AM
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In general no, as was remarked in a sibling comment in this thread: SARS-Cov-2 on average spreads within the first 1-4 days after infection (viral titers peak on day 2 I believe), so the virus is indifferent to what happens after.
I also want to remark that there is the opposite effect that transmissibility correlates strongly with viral load (amount of viral particles) and viral load correlates weakly with lethality.
> I'm hearing that for the first time, do you have a source?
A virus that kills its host before it has a chance to infect others cannot reproduce.
I cannot remember which virus it was (might have been ebola) but it wiped whole communities so fast it died off because there were no new hosts to infect.