3.6. Negative Correlation Between Survival and Virulence In a negative correlation scenario, high values for survival would be associated with low values for virulence [2,9,15] and a low peak in total infected population. Pathogens with a life history that exhibits negative virulence–survival associations would likely appear in quadrants II and IV in Figure 5. Under negative correlation, outbreak severity decreases as survival increases. Across the measured range of variation in virulence–survival traits, the peak number of infected individuals decreases by approximately 23%, the rate at which the epidemic peak is reached decreases by 0.15%, the total number of infected individuals decreases by 3%, and R0 decreases by approximately 84% (Figure 6 and Table 6). Across all metrics considered, the effects of increased viral survival on outbreak dynamics is more extreme under the positive correlation than the negative correlation scenarios (Figure 6).