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Yes, but I meant more so than other viruses which aren't as transmissible, and even more so with other variants of covid which are in the same category.
I read before that people who are infected with Delta seem to replicate so much virus early on that the immune system can't get a response quickly enough (though it does eventually which is why you usually get the initial replication and some symptoms but not more in vaccinated people) and that they shed so much virus it infects others more. Given that they don't think it takes much to infect someone then they will be able to spread that more easily to others and of course people who have no immunity will get ill easier.
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Viral load, doesn't seem unreasonable to assume anything that cuts the load down, like a mask is probably a good thing!
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I suppose win for a virus is one which spreads easily between hosts whilst not killing them or debilitating them to the extent they stop what they're doing.
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Only problem with that is for this virus to mutate into that it actually has to evolve into an entirely new virus, which it may well do incidentally but I wouldn't bank on it