Short thread. I keep seeing claims on how some places may have reached herd immunity & calculations on whether a variant is more virulent or disporportionately affects the young etc. These are not easy things to discern so let’s not do confident back-of-the-envelope calculations.
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Replying to @zeynep
Yes - especially in LMIC or places where testing is all over the place Young people coming in droves to ICU in an area with questionable testing could be a) Increased virulence b) Baseline risk with a LOT of younger people infected and only seeing tip of the iceberg.
6:17 AM - 8 Apr 2021
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