Making sense of severity. Every variant of Covid is both mild *and* severe, depending on who gets infected…

Making sense of severity. Every variant of Covid is both mild *and* severe, depending on who gets infected and how they respond? So an assessment of severity of a variant is made on the collective outcome of many infections - an epidemiological assessment? /1 #COVID19

I’ve seem the ‘mild’ narrative interpreted by members of the public to mean that the variant itself will be intrinsically mild, for all people. But that doesn’t seem to be what’s at stake here, to me. It will still be severe, and lethal, for some. We know some of the…/2

…things (age, co-morbidities etc.) associated with more severe illness, but the aetiology of severe Covid is still a bit of an enigma? Fewer may get severe disease, from a given variant, but the assessment of severity will be made on the aggregate, not individual data? /end