• Chainweasel
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    502 months ago

    Covid has a mortality rate of about 3% while H5N1 has a mortality rate of about 56%.
    If it starts spreading from person to person and it has an r value similar to Covid, we’re fucked.

    • @Nawor3565
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      402 months ago

      Probably not. If a virus is too deadly, it kills its hosts before it can spread. That’s why SARS didn’t turn into a pandemic.

    • @Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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      71 month ago

      Covid has a mortality rate of about 3%

      hah great, makes the 1 in 50k risk of a certain vaccine’s side effects even more ridiculous to think about