It's coming towards the end of the year, and there are still countless people minimizing the pandemic and spreading untruths So I thought I'd do a bit of a thread of FACTS about COVID-19 1/n
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2/n Fact 1: the death rate of COVID-19 varies substantially by age, but is high even for relatively young people For example, a 1 in 2,700 risk of death from COVID-19 for a 35 year old, based on our comprehensive paper on the topic https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10654-020-00698-1 …pic.twitter.com/lpN4W6CyKJ
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3/n Fact 2: COVID-19 is MUCH more dangerous than influenza For younger age groups, COVID-19 may be similarly lethal. For anyone over 30, it is much worse.
@zorinaq has a nice graphic on thispic.twitter.com/e1DUdK1zcd
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"anyone" over 30. Wrong! Flu and Covid are dangerous to different people due to different underlying conditions. Flu is more dangerous to those with heart failure, chronic respiratory disease, cirrhosis, and deficiency anaemia.pic.twitter.com/Xbm86flwbg
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What's your expertise in this field? And what on earth are you quoting? Where's the link to it?
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What that paper does is nicely demonstrate that Covid is considerably more dangerous than flu.
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@GidMK has posted a thread of "Facts", many of which are not! I am simply ensuring a balanced viewpoint. We have had far too many erroneous narratives foisted upon us during this farce, we can really do without any more!2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
They are all facts. What you've got there is a paper that you haven't read properly and have quite clearly misunderstood 
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Yeah, rock on.......
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