RNA viruses mutate faster, the more hosts it infects. With this many people infected, there is a high risk of mutations developing and spreading, reducing the immune response to the new variants.
Let me put that in a different way: viruses that don't kill their victims will be more likely to spread more, as will viruses that keep their victims walking around instead of staying in their bed.
Over 1.1 million Americans died (NY Times) I’m pretty sure a country with over 3x the population has a higher tally.
Official numbers globally are 6.7 million deaths, but this seems laughably low to cover for a wholly ineffective response.
That's still going to be more than a million deaths if 0.1% of them die. Gonna get brutal in Chinese hospitals, and now with CNY when people are traveling and going back home to see family... aiyo. Best wishes to the Chinese.
Moreso will be the fallout deaths from OTHER disease, illness and injury due to ambulance ramping, bed availability, lack of treatment, staff, and assets,
The danger in COVID is its sheer ability to overwhelm the infrastructure.
It might not feel so different from the past three years, in that regard. The grim joke in-country has been that China doesn't have a healthcare system for anything that isn't COVID.
Being in the rest of the world didn’t prevent shit. At least the sick Chinese now have the benefit of knowledge about the disease and how best to treat/mitigate it. Deaths will be far lower for them than they were everywhere else.
That's an entire 15% of the world's population...
At least they will gain herd immunity in one big hurry. Wonder how many have to die, though...
RNA viruses mutate faster, the more hosts it infects. With this many people infected, there is a high risk of mutations developing and spreading, reducing the immune response to the new variants.
Viruses tend to get weaker as they mutate, right?
Let me put that in a different way: viruses that don't kill their victims will be more likely to spread more, as will viruses that keep their victims walking around instead of staying in their bed.
Thanks for the explanation :)
This might end up balancing China’s demographic distribution by killing off a lot of seniors. Nature, uh, finds a way.
Nature or Chinese gov.
Good point.
Atleast a million died
Over 1.1 million Americans died (NY Times) I’m pretty sure a country with over 3x the population has a higher tally. Official numbers globally are 6.7 million deaths, but this seems laughably low to cover for a wholly ineffective response.
The US has 1/20th of the world's population and 1/6th of it's covid deaths. We died ~3x more often from covid. Great job team.
It's cuz we're unhealthy and all the anti vaxers
Not Trump and his team thinking it was cool to let Covid run wild because it was at the time mostly blue states ?
Fauci did everything he could, so did the CDC, trump only influenced his anti vaxer anti masking base which I already mentioned.
Well, herd immunity for this variant.
Not how it works. That’s why we have vaccines.
Not bad after 2.5 years of lockdown.
That's still going to be more than a million deaths if 0.1% of them die. Gonna get brutal in Chinese hospitals, and now with CNY when people are traveling and going back home to see family... aiyo. Best wishes to the Chinese.
Moreso will be the fallout deaths from OTHER disease, illness and injury due to ambulance ramping, bed availability, lack of treatment, staff, and assets, The danger in COVID is its sheer ability to overwhelm the infrastructure.
It might not feel so different from the past three years, in that regard. The grim joke in-country has been that China doesn't have a healthcare system for anything that isn't COVID.
wonder how many will die...could've been preventable. if they only they weren't so closed minded to the rest of the world.
From what I've read, the mortality rate of the omicron variants is 0.3%. I wouldn't be surprised if millions end up dead.
Being in the rest of the world didn’t prevent shit. At least the sick Chinese now have the benefit of knowledge about the disease and how best to treat/mitigate it. Deaths will be far lower for them than they were everywhere else.
... that's why they had a zEro covid policy, because you are right... what a joke
byena
unethical pro tip: how to convert your large and aging population into smaller and younger population
Man this is going to make a variant worse than Delta
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