so, if every single American had been infected by a disease with an IFR of 0.15%, there'd be about 492,000 deaths. there are more thank 560,000 COVID deaths, with well under a majority of the public having likely been infected. smell tests are wonderful things.https://twitter.com/aginnt/status/1383813501534162954 …
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people's heads should get bitten off for making that comparison in an unqualified way! lead poisoning is not a problem for people in affluent suburbs. should people not face pushback if they extrapolate that to an unqualified claim of "lead poisoning is not a problem"?
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Additionally—only in statistical analysis can the pandemic can be meaningfully segmented into young / middle / old. Kids can infect anyone, and it’s even worse if the disease has relatively mild symptoms in children.
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For under 40 year olds, the original strain was just the flu. But in Brazil right now, where P1 dominates, that group occupies most of the active ICUs. (And vaccine effectiveness against current variants is not yet completely known, let alone future ones.)https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-idUSKBN2C02UB …
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The flu does not hospitalize young and middle aged people at the rate covid does. That's the problem with only looking at the death rate
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