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by nradov 2008 days ago
Well OC43 has been around for over a century and never mutated to start killing kids. So why would this be virus do that? Your speculation seems uninformed.
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There's speculation that an ancestor strain to OC43 was in fact the cause of the 1898 pandemicinstead of influenza.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_coronavirus_OC43