[FRIAM] Covid and Politics

Tue May 26 15:57:09 EDT 2020

Does not Ewald suggest that a virus might evolve to be more benign vis-a-vis its hosts so as to maximize the number of potential hosts, i.e. avoid killing them off and reducing their will and actions in resistance?

Probably totally misread him as that is not at all my field of interest.

davew

On Tue, May 26, 2020, at 1:49 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> It gets even MORE interesting if we consider the variable environment to which the virus is optimizing. According to Ewald’s theory <https://www.amazon.com/s?k=evolution+of+infectious+disease+by+paul+ewald&i=stripbooks&crid=2M9WVN279ILHB&sprefix=Paul+Ewald+evolu%2Cstripbooks%2C271&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_16>, the virulence of the virus evolves in relation to its Ro, so a more transmissible virus will become more virulent, etc and vv.

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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Marcus Daniels
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 26, 2020 1:36 PM
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> Dave writes:

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> < 3.5 million deaths is perfectly acceptable. Mostly because that total will accumulate at a rate of 150-170,000 per year which puts COVID in the lower half of the top five causes of death in the US. >

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> It gets more interesting if SARS-Cov2 is optimizing itself. 

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> Marcus

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