There’s no clear reason why mortality and transmissibility of a virus should be inversely correlated.
More quickly fatal diseases leave less time for the immune system to respond and less time for transmission to occur. You’re right that’s not to say we can’t end up with diseases that are both more contagious and more deadly than COVID-19, we definitely could, but that’s not the direction the correlation goes.
That’s a good point. It matters more for diseases where the window of transmissibility and of symptoms closely overlap. The contagiousness of the disease is another critical factor that isn’t affected by how quickly fatal the disease is. Overall, I think my statement is right, but you supply valuable nuance.
More quickly fatal diseases leave less time for the immune system to respond and less time for transmission to occur. You’re right that’s not to say we can’t end up with diseases that are both more contagious and more deadly than COVID-19, we definitely could, but that’s not the direction the correlation goes.
That’s a good point. It matters more for diseases where the window of transmissibility and of symptoms closely overlap. The contagiousness of the disease is another critical factor that isn’t affected by how quickly fatal the disease is. Overall, I think my statement is right, but you supply valuable nuance.