The coronavirus is unlikely to wipe out humanity. But a bacterial infection – it may well
The question is similar to the child’s “Who is stronger – a whale or an elephant?” Bacteria, such as pathogenic strains of E. coli, Staphylococcus aureus or acinetobacters, claim many more lives than new viruses that appear every few years, kill several hundred or thousands of people and disappear. Of course, there is a story with the Spanish flu, which killed millions at the beginning of the 20th century. But then there was a war, the usual way of life…