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Re:Harvard mandates the bivalent Omicron-specific Covid-19 b... by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @07:59AM (#33787042)
> It wasn't particularly pleasant, but certainly not a "deadly virus"

I know somebody who contracted Malaria and lived. It wasn't particularly pleasant but certainly not a "deadly disease".

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Re:Harvard mandates the bivalent Omicron-specific Covid-19 b... by lbeltrame on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @08:07AM (#33787105)
Malaria is not an infection by a coronavirus (I do know one person too, FTR, my grandfather during the Albanian campaign in WWII). And it is not age stratified like a SARS-CoV-2 infection. And there's no 95% seroprevalence like with SARS-CoV-2 in most regions that had surges.
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