https://newsgranularity.com/2020/05/11/covid-19-vs-spanish-flu-a-societal-comparison/
Overall, the Spanish Flu is likely to be deadliest epidemic in the history of world. Estimates are that 1-3% of the world’s population died from the Spanish Flu. So many younger people died in the US in 1918 that the average US life expectancy was reduced by 10 years.
It is not clear why the second wave of the virus was so much more lethal than the first. There is some speculation that there may have been a mild and deadly version of the virus, but this has not been definitively confirmed. In the ‘developed’ world, the mortality rate was generally believed to be about 2%. In other counties, the mortality rate has been estimated to have caused up 14% of a population (Fiji islands) to die.
Eventually, toward the end of 1918 the number of deaths caused by the virus began to decrease. This is believed to be because there were so many people that had already been infected and/or the virus may have mutated again to be less invasive to the lungs. It eventually ‘devolved’ to be part of the seasonal flu. There was never a vaccine developed for the Spanish Flu.
VUI-202012/01, may be up to 70% more transmissible
The mutation is seen on the protein spike that is associated with the mechanism by which the virus infects host cells. The D614G mutation is associated with enhanced infectivity
The press is now reporting a mutation in the coronavirus responsible for Covid-19 the mutation, VUI-202012/01, may be up to 70% more transmissible.
The mutation is seen on the protein spike that is associated with the mechanism by which the virus infects host cells. The D614G mutation is associated with enhanced infectivity.
This is an indication that the virus is evolving to cope with the lockdowns and other social control measures designed to combat it? Viruses evolve thousands of times faster than eukaryotic life forms such as mammals and it is to be expected that where transmission and infection are made more difficult that the more infective strains will become more prevalent.
The irony is that the lockdowns have made the virus more infective and are now contributing to the transmission of the infection.
Вирус эволюционно не заинтересован в гибели источника питания - хозяина и поэтому он постепенно будет терять свою вирулентность, чтобы постоянно жить и размножаться в организме хозяина.
Тот же самый испанский грипп, который был смертельным, сейчас не является таковым из-за мутирования, при которой он приспособился к источнику своего питания - хозяину.
Ilhom Axrorovich Tagayev Thanks for your comment. I don't know about yout monther tongue. I used google to translate you comment as:
The virus is evolutionarily not interested in the death of the host food source and therefore it will gradually lose its virulence in order to constantly live and reproduce in the host body.
Ilhom Axrorovich Tagayev
Google translation of your message
The same Spanish flu, which was deadly, is now not so because of the mutation in which it adapted to the source of its food - the host.
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