Interesting statistics

IT is because the virus is mutating to a weaker form. And every viral infection has passed through the immune systems of many thousands of people, which have forced changes on its genetic makeup.

 

This isn’t directed at you Scott, but it’s interesting how some who characterize evolution as a myth or say that all evolutionary mutations are bad are so quick to say the virus has mutated into a beneficially weaker form.

My co-worker’s daughter is a downtown Philly ER nurse practitioner.
She reports the hospital emergency room where she works has been swamped with flu cases recently.

One of the reasons for the “lock-down” was to reduce the initial burden on the healthcare system.
Since then

• medical staff has been trained,
• procedures have been established,
• treatments have been developed,
• numerous research studies have been performed,
• in theses studies medications have been proven
• while others (like the highly promoted hydroxychloroquine) have been set aside.

We’ve simply gotten better at treating the virus.

Rob

 

This virus is less virulent (deadly) than it was, but perhaps more infectious than it was, the many new cases show that. IMO, you dont have the huge numbers of dead people compared to numbers infected it originally had at the beginning of the year.

There are quite a few mutated variants infecting people now.
Flu also goes through mutations and some mutations are deadlier than others.
Colds also readily mutate.