Why coronavirus is so frighteningly successful(theguardian.com)

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Why coronavirus is so frighteningly successful

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/20/coronavirus-master-of-disguise-scientists-viruses-covid-19

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> As we now know only too well, Sars-Cov-2 is far more of a menace, because it can cause severe acute respiratory syndrome in some patients, which may lead to between 1% and 7% mortality.

Wrong. See the newest study from Dr. Ioannidis here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22922812 (spoiler: fatality rate is estimated to be 0.12-0.2%).