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The coronavirus looks less deadly than first reported, but it's definitely not 'just a flu'

  • Written by Mike Lee, Professor in Evolutionary Biology (jointly appointed with South Australian Museum), Flinders University
The coronavirus looks less deadly than first reported, but it's definitely not 'just a flu'Felipe Esquivel Reed/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

The avalanche of coronavirus infections in the current pandemic has been accompanied by a similar avalanche of information, making it hard to sift reliable news from the noise.

Among the most crucial questions is: how deadly is the SARS-CoV-2 virus?

First things first: contrary to some reports, there...

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