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Re:Data seems to indicate omicron milder, more transmissible... by dTal on Thursday December 09, 2021 @02:44PM (#29501985)
Long-term disability of the host, however, affects them not at all.
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Re:Data seems to indicate omicron milder, more transmissible... by Closi on Thursday December 09, 2021 @05:01PM (#29503547)
Depends if healthy hosts are better at spreading, however all this depends on the selection pressures in the short term.

A virus probably doesn’t ‘care’ that much about a 1% host death rate in the short term.

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