the thing is, people who listen to this idiot are going to believe this
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If she had said "for people under 30" it would match the chart, unlike her dishonest claim. However, it would still be a misrepresentation of the data. It's quite possible the death rate for people under 30 is higher than flu, but the sample is too small to measure a tiny rate.
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The flu numbers from the CDC are also an estimate from a mathematical model because deaths from the flu are under-reported and most cases aren't detected:
cdc.gov/flu/about/burd
My impression is that the COVID-19 stats are raw data based on number of deaths and detected cases.
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South Korea also has universal health care and you'd want to be comparing against flu numbers based on their health care system instead of the US.
What I was saying about the mortality rate for young people is just that the sample size isn't large enough to actually measure it.
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The 0.00% number means that they hadn't had a confirmed death from COVID-19 from someone under 30, but it's quite possible that the mortality rate is ~0.02% (higher than the flu). Can look up # of detected cases in South Korea. It was too small to start measuring a rate that low.
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Also requires higher rates of hospitalization than the flu and if hospital resources are exhausted the mortality rate skyrockets. Italy cut off ventilator access for older people. In the US, I have a feeling that money is going to matter more than age once resources run out.
And we don't know the long terms effects of having a severe case of it yet. People who survive being infected are ending up with lung and heart damage, which I'd assume is going to shorten lives. They'll be more vulnerable to dying from pneumonia or a heart attack later.
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