August 29 2021 There are 83 Covid community cases today, taking the total cases in the outbreak to 511. That was the rather foreboding headline from a recent article in the Atlantic, which quoted leading medical authorities, including New Zealander Dr Richard Webby. But Webby thinks recombining is more likely to make the Covid-19 coronavirus more tame, rather than more severe. Webby says there's no doubt that right now the Covid-19 coronavirus is much deadlier and makes more people sick than the flu, but it's likely we'll see that change. He doesn't think the Covid-19 virus is as quick to evolve as flu has been.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 28, 2021 23:37 UTC