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Re:Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant by smus on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @11:59AM (#29487220)
Yeah let's play this game! Let me count all the viruses that killed close to a million Americans in the last 2 years!

1. COVID

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Re:Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant by hcurtiss on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @12:54PM (#29488017)
Transmissivity /= mortality rate
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Re:Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant by smus on Friday December 10, 2021 @03:15AM (#29507628)
Why are we talking about the mortality rate and not the overall mortality of the virus? Seems that the metric that matters is how many people it kills. Especially since we are actively fighting the virus harder than most in the past few years.
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