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by takeda
2302 days ago
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Say what you want, but 2% is not negligible. That's 1 of every 50 people. With 330,000,000 population that's over 6.5mil people. Yes, the mortality changes with age younger people are about 0.2% but older are close to 15%. Having health issues such as cardiovascular or diabetes increases the risk further, and Americans aren't the healthiest people. |
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First, parent was talking about the risk to an individual adult person; you yourself note that varies with other parameters including age. This isn't comparable to the 2% figure.
Second, the mortality figure is 2% of people who are infected, not of the total population. So it's substantially less than 6.5 million people, unless literally everyone in the country catches the bug.