Abstract
Despite SARS-CoV-2 being a closest genetic relation of SARS-CoV that caused SARS 2002-2004 pandemic, its spread was not managed to contain at the very beginning in China, as it was done with SARS-CoV. Worldwide dissemination of SARS-CoV-2 ensued and gave rise to the current media and political infodemic. The virus is mainly thought of as a something novel, unseen thus far by humanity. Our brief note reveals the real situation and debunks this myth. A concise comparative ecological and epidemiological analysis is performed, where COVID-19 pandemic is opposed to eleven major pandemics the humanity survived, with the major epide-miological characteristics are taken into account. SARS-CoV-2 is demonstrated to be one of the least dangerous viruses in terms of fatality and contagiousness. A hypothesis is proposed that rapid spread of the virus around the world and high percentage of the infected persons, are mainly accounted for by purely social and demographic factors, not by epidemiological nor ecological ones.
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