Dear all,
Asha Gilbert wrote a news article for USA Today entitled, “What is the Nipah Virus and Why is it More Deadly than COVID? A Virus Expert Explains“.
I found this article extremely disturbing and not because the Nipah Virus is more deadly than COVID. I find it disturbing because Asha is trying to alarm people unnecessarily. This is what is annoying about many news articles. They try to make it seem like the news content is more important than it really is.
There are many viruses that are more deadly than COVID but there is a sweet spot where COVID happens to be where it has allowed itself to be infecting people worldwide.
This exact same news article could be written but replaced with the word “Ebola” instead – and others too. Ebola does not transmit like COVID and is far more deadly than COVID. There are many factors that come into play that do not involve how deadly it is, in terms of how rampant and how infectious a virus is on a worldwide scale.
Ebola is not everywhere because of how deadly it is. A virus can be at a disadvantage if it is too deadly in terms of how it goes from host to host.
Let’s not freak out.
These opinions are mine and do not represent any entity I am affiliated with.
Best wishes,
Pharmacoengineering.com