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As long as the initial infection didn’t kill or incapacitate you.

Edit: most bubonic plague infections didn’t kill so I don’t know what the point of “most people survive” is. The problem is that some don’t.

The Black Death, if that's what you're talking about, killed about 2/3 of all Europeans.

I usually see estimates more in the 40-50% range?

Which is most of covid infections.