There are evolutionary pressures on viruses that tend to weaken them over time. You get variants competing with each other and the more silent ones get advantages over the ones with worse outcomes.
It isn’t clear exactly what is going to happen, but as more people get vaccinated and natural immunity and the variants continue to evolve the situation might change a lot or become unnoticeable.
I would love to see an epidemic expert comment on the long term evolutionary effects of different mitigation strategies which might differ in preferences than short term trying to reduce number of infections.
It isn’t clear exactly what is going to happen, but as more people get vaccinated and natural immunity and the variants continue to evolve the situation might change a lot or become unnoticeable.
I would love to see an epidemic expert comment on the long term evolutionary effects of different mitigation strategies which might differ in preferences than short term trying to reduce number of infections.