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(12,584 posts)snowybirdie
(5,219 posts)That herd immunity took over. Because so many people had already had it or died.
Initech
(100,036 posts)It just mutated into a way less deadly and more easily manageable strain that could be taken care of with a shot or pills. That could easily happen with COVID, or COVID could disappear and come back as something else. The thing is there are way too many unknowns with this one.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)still_one
(92,061 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,586 posts)But viruses always mutate.
Ms. Toad
(33,992 posts)It's the nature of the influenza virus that it is seasonal, and different strains predominate nearly every year.
But since I suspect you are suggesting that COVID 19 might dissapear the same way - remember you are dealing with a different virus. It does not follow the influenza playbook.
COL Mustard
(5,870 posts)It mutated and humans gained immunity. Most of the seasonal flus today are descended from it. COVID may work the same.
There's only one virus I want to really eradicate, and we can provide the cure on November 3.
Ms. Toad
(33,992 posts)It takes around 90% of the population, and only about 30% were infected by the 1918 influenza. You are correct that it mutated - that is why I put "disappears" in quotes, and you are correct that many of the seasonal influenza strains today descended from it.. COVID 19 is a coronavirus. They are significantly different from the influenza virus when it comes to mutating, and cannot be expected to work the same way.
dsc
(52,152 posts)so people who get the viruses that descended from it don't die now like they died then.