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Re:Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta by smt88 on Monday August 16, 2021 @10:04PM (#28205285)
Except that it is still much more dangerous for unvaccinated people than the flu, which is an important distinction.
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Re:Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta by bob33212 on Monday August 16, 2021 @10:18PM (#28205374)
The original strain of the flu was also more deadly. But it eventually mutated and became less
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Re:Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta by ashildr on Monday August 16, 2021 @11:47PM (#28206006)
With that high number of young people dying of the flu back then you may say that the host mutated and became less susceptible to the original strain of the flu.

Since SARS-CoV-2 seems to be especially dangerous for people after reproductive age I don‘t expect the same pressure as with flu. It may influence our inverted age pyramid, though. And it may have influence on the number of highly educated people >50 and older people with disposable income. (I belong in this group)

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