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MrCyra t1_j9d8top wrote

Reply to comment by Ituzzip in Is COVID unique in the way it affects different individuals in such different ways? by stupidrobots

Yeah, for instance salmonella has over 2500 strains and can cause anything from light stomach bug that goes away on its own to death. Less severe cases can be easily mistaken with food poisoning and such. So in theory it's way less scary than it seems on other hand it's so easy to prevent it that there is no point in playing lottery with this.

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Ituzzip t1_j9fz004 wrote

Right, and not only are those strains all different but even identical strains could produce different sorts of disease in different people, based on things like prior immunity (or cross-immunity from a similar strain), the amount of infectious material that was ingested, how fast the digestive system is moving etc.

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