Apparently, a strain of influenza, B/Yamagata, went extinct, perhaps because of COVID. Go figure.

    •  maegul   ( @maegul@lemmy.ml ) 
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      29 months ago

      What has never made a dent scientifically? The lockdowns during the pandemic? I mean that’s demonstrably false … fewer people got the virus without without the protection of a vaccine because of them. And some places managed to eradicate the virus with them, which saddens me because if we’d managed to limit infections and the amount of mutations and variants until vaccines came through, we could be in a different world now. Like, COVID could be extinct and no one talks about it.