Also true: even if we experience it much milder *on average*, adding one more seasonal HCoV will add to our disease burden and increase risks for especially for the elderly/immunocompromised. This is true for other viruses, too (RSV even OC43!) but now we have one additional one.
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(I guess I'd add that in the US, unlike say UK or Denmark, there is much less public health protection for individuals and families: vaccines are a tool that allow higher individual protection when people can't depend on lower circulation among adults).
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Sorry if I wasn't clear, that was not what I was suggesting My point was the balance of risk:benefit requires a higher degree of benefit in cultures which prize "unmedicalised" childhood - hence different recommendations based on similar data
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(i.e., in the QT asking what ratio was enough to justify recommendation - this will be different depending on difference health cultures)
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