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HankHollywood 5 points ago +5 / -0

This is most feasible to me but I wonder if the virus has mutated so many times it's not nearly as deadly? I don't know but there will be something. Bet on it.

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cheesecakelove 8 points ago +8 / -0

There’s been several reports of doctors claiming exactly that.

I read a particularly fake bit of news today. The article said something like “ in reality, the virus clinically no longer exists in Italy, claims head doctor“ and “ The swabs that were performed over the last 10 days showed a viral load in terms that was absolutely infinitesimal compared to the ones carried out a month or two months ago, but there is no scientific backing to support these claims”.

Not two paragraphs later there is a fucking link to TWO scientific papers claiming that on average patients with higher viral loads became more ill.

Fucking shit media I tell you. And of course they had to throw in the WHO’s two cents.

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NuclearDreams 7 points ago +7 / -0

Almost every virus ends up this way. Since a virus needs a host to replicate, the mutations which are naturally more aggressive to their hosts will die out since they won't get much of a chance to spread. Only the asymptomatic ones become prominent, and since most healthy immune systems can recognize it and develop the proper antibodies, any future aggressive mutations will be much more quickly fought off.