With a mortality rate equal to the 1918 Spanish Flu which killed up to 100 million, we would be justified with our panic but with our interconnected economies of the 21st century, the panic is far deadlier than the virus could ever be
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Outbreak – the first movie which brought pandemics into mainstream counciousness
It’s been a nigh eternal war – Humans have been battling viruses since before our species evolved into its current form. COVID-19 isn’t even the first coronavirus we’ve been dealing with, in 2007, we dealt with a “killer cold” the WHO dubbed, Adenovirus-14 . Since transmission is a matter of life or death for pathogen lineages, some evolutionary biologists have focused on this as the key to understanding why some viruses evolved into killers and others cause no worse than the common cold. The idea is that there may be an evolutionary trade-off between virulence and transmission but even then, biologically speaking, medical science is no closer to discovering the relationships between the lethality of a virus and its viralbility (a term that currently refers to social media phenoms rather than diseases) that any hypothesis at this point is just conjecture. That said, one thing is clear: A lot of people are more scared of COVID-19 than they have any reason to be. For a start, there are many types of human coron...