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Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by Pyramus on Thursday July 29, 2021 @05:45AM (#27994595)
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).
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Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by tpxl on Friday July 30, 2021 @06:14AM (#28006386)
Won't any amount of lethality preclude some transmission?
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Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by Pyramus on Friday July 30, 2021 @06:56AM (#28006629)
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.

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