It is TRULY ASTONISHING that even now, 10 months into COVID-19, we at still having to explain that increasing cases = increasing deaths a few weeks later
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This is obviously specific to COVID-19, other diseases have very different dynamics
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I know. You’d think they would have figured this out.
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Young people don’t always die less. It depends on the disease. For healthy under 65 no more deadly than flu and as you get younger it’s less. Once the immune density in population either by antibodies Tcell etc reaches a critical point the vulnerable are substantially protected
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So what's interesting is that biomedical lessons have been learned & implemented. It's the public health lessons & policies that need to proven over and over again (in each jurisdiction & every few months).
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In spring it did not. Back then it was quite evenly distributed among age groups. But in summer it did as the very young cared less and went back to normal. This, combined with more testing those wishfully thinking reacted with "see, just cases - no death - it's a lab-epidemic"
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If the immunity is as short as I keep hearing (3 months) then age isn’t really much of a factor, long term, anyway Since it can repeatedly hit a community, distressing the people at a rate faster than they’re recover, there won’t be much of a difference between young and old
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“The healthy and optimistic among us will doom the vulnerable.” —Emily Landon, MD 3/20/2020
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Also, I know a 28 year old in India whose father died from covid19 and who barely survived in ICU and now has pulmonary fibrosis. Seems being healthy and even young is not necessarily protection.
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yacige zajucu
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