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increased severity of disease from new pathogens is one result of climate change

• nradov 2y ago
  Really? More severe than, let's say, HCoV-OC43 or "Spanish" flu? https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lpm.2022.104111 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lpm.2022.104111
  • lazyasciiart 2y ago
    Yes, much more severe. Covid alone had a higher fatality rate than Spanish flu. 2012 MERS had a 30% fatality rate. Ebola strains in Zaire and Sudan have had fatality rates over 50%.
    • nradov 2y ago
      Nope, much less severe. COVID-19 had an infection fatality rate way lower than 1%. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.114655 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.114655 As for those other diseases there is zero evidence that climate change has made them more severe. It's not impossible but we simply have no reliable evidence of a causal relationship one way or the other.
  • kelnos 2y ago
    You can't cherry pick a single century-old example and use that to prove the opposite. That's not how logic and reasoning work.
    • nradov 2y ago
      You can't claim that global warming is making diseases more severe without hard evidence. That's not how logic and reasoning work.