BTW, it’s am minor point, but I feel like the media is biased to fail to identify new variants as more deadly, because of racism concerns. Every single media article about the South Africa variant said “there’s no evidence it’s more deadly.” They were saying this before there was enough time to know with confidence (and “no evidence” was technically false because there were anecdotal reports of children being more affected).
BTW, it’s am minor point, but I feel like the media is biased to fail to identify new variants as more deadly, because of racism concerns. Every single media article about the South Africa variant said “there’s no evidence it’s more deadly.” They were saying this before there was enough time to know with confidence (and “no evidence” was technically false because there were anecdotal reports of children being more affected).