I'm not saying anything about the relative severity of different waves. It is largely immaterial whether an epidemic wave killed 20K or 30K people. They killed a lot of people. The outcome is going to be different each time and the factors that determine the severity are manifold. The waves tend to get smaller because we develop broader …
I'm not saying anything about the relative severity of different waves. It is largely immaterial whether an epidemic wave killed 20K or 30K people. They killed a lot of people. The outcome is going to be different each time and the factors that determine the severity are manifold. The waves tend to get smaller because we develop broader immunity and better treatments, but that doesn't preclude a mutation which has more severe outcomes.
I'm not saying anything about the relative severity of different waves. It is largely immaterial whether an epidemic wave killed 20K or 30K people. They killed a lot of people. The outcome is going to be different each time and the factors that determine the severity are manifold. The waves tend to get smaller because we develop broader immunity and better treatments, but that doesn't preclude a mutation which has more severe outcomes.