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by nradov 554 days ago
Nope, much less severe. COVID-19 had an infection fatality rate way lower than 1%.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.114655

As for those other diseases there is zero evidence that climate change has made them more severe. It's not impossible but we simply have no reliable evidence of a causal relationship one way or the other.