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We're unlucky in that Covid takes such a long time to kill. It's a little under a week until symptoms onset, another week until serious illness [1]. Hospital patients aren't dying of Covid until almost 2 weeks after admission [2]. So we're talking about victims dying maybe a month after exposure.

With other illnesses there's evolutionary pressure to be less deadly so that the host doesn't die before infecting others, but that's not a problem for Covid where people are most contagious before symptom onset.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/clinical-guida...

[2] https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1923.full