[49para]

The 2% mortality rate is for the whole population, if you end up in the hospital with acute pneumonia the mortality rate is around 61%

https://www.scribd.com/document/448385523/s-2213260020300795...

[koheripbal]

...also important to remember that those who recover from severe symptoms (~10%) have permanently damaged lung function due to lesions that formed during infection.

[aldoushuxley001]

That number is still only for extremely at risk segments of the population, and the study has such a small sample size that it should be taken with large grains of salt.

[koheripbal]

I wouldn't dismiss the entire elderly population of Earth "extremely at risk" population. They are our mothers/fathers/grandparents...

[everybodyknows]

>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[aldoushuxley001]

I’m saying that’s what that study accounted for: extremely at risk populations. So yeah elderly, people with preexisting conditions, etc.

It’s not a dismissal to acknowledge the limitations of your linked study; to do otherwise would be fearmongering in my opinion.