It's kind of a stretch to say they're predicting a hyper lethal variant. It sounds like they're saying that there is no guarantee that the next variant will be mild, and it could even be comparable to MERS, another novel coronavirus that has a 35% fatality rate. However, they also acknowledge that the next variant might be mild as well.
I read it not so much as a prediction of doom as a warning that we don't know the future and this virus might yet surprise us.
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Re: Hyper lethal varient
Date: 2022-02-22 08:59 pm (UTC)I read it not so much as a prediction of doom as a warning that we don't know the future and this virus might yet surprise us.
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