It’s not so certain that serious cases will be low. SOuth Africahas an avg age of 27, and most of the population has had an infection with prior versions of the virus. And they are seeing cases go up. And a less virulent virus, that infects people at 4x the rate will still overwhelm health resources.You're so sexy when you are assertive!
My take is that with the the new strain hospitalizations and deaths will be quite low.
And more importantly massive immunity will be acquired throughout the world.
The sky is not falling and this will signal the beginning of the end of the pandemic.
Even if hospitalization doesn’t go up (very unlikely given the rapid spread) unchecked transmission could grind our economy to a halt, taking out huge segments of the workforce (including healthcare) and their contacts. You think we have supply chain issues now….
but if it is super mild, and we decide we don’t care if people have it, don’t need to isolate etc, and it runs thru the population quickly, you are right, we would all acquire some more immunity.
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