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Hmm. I'm aware that authors don't always set their own headline, but this one's actually misleading.

If anything, #COVID19 will likely become like a '#FifthFlu', i.e. a seasonal killer - not MERS or SARS, bur *far* less benign than the common cold...
unherd.com/2020/07/why-co…
As @TomChivers points out, with so many publications and so much amplification, it can be difficult to work out what's going on.

There's encouraging news on the #vaccine front, with provisos: of which KCL's #antibody study is one:
And we're still learning about the wider systemic effects of #SARSCoV2 where, e.g. #clotting appears to be a significant factor, unlike either colds or flu.

In reality, we simply haven't lived & died with the virus for long enough to know the answers we so desperately want.
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