Yes, epidemics usually start in the young. And young people die less But young people infect their parents, grandparents, teachers, co workers, and more. The infection rarely limits itself to those who are less vulnerable
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This is obviously specific to COVID-19, other diseases have very different dynamics
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One of the big ‘arguments’ the anti-msk crowd has here is that all deaths are being attributed to Covid. Do you know where this notion came from? It seems so bizarre but is a massive talking point
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If this helps, here's a link to the leading causes of death in the US. If all (or most) deaths were being attributed to COVID, deaths from other causes would have to decrease significantly. But they're still about the same, bc there's an excess of deaths, from COVID.
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Because it’s not true. If you test more people that are younger and healthy you get more positives ( valid & false). But you don’t get many deaths from that. It does get you closer to herd immunity though. So just because you want it to be true doesn’t make it so.

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UK hospital admissions and ICU cases going up. Deaths are now starting to increase. Better treatment should limit this compared to the last wave but there is no basis for assuming the virus is suddenly safepic.twitter.com/rnn0rzXyyP
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Do you know if there is a collection of age-stratified case data somewhere? Would be great to use that data to explain discrepancies between cases and deaths. Attached is an example for Zurich.pic.twitter.com/Y5BWHFR3c5
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One note: the last week of case data is incomplete in the heatmap above.
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And everyone always overlooks or underrecognizes morbidity. We don't even know what the long-term morbidity will look like for this infection. 5-10 years down the road we could be in deep trouble.
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