[kaiabwpdjqn]

Death rates aside, it looks like younger people are less likely to even get the disease (not especially surprising). If you exclude the really young people, even the 30 year olds would likely be under represented (I think). One implication of this may be that societies with more socially engaged older people will be more vulnerable to this. E.g. countries where people who serve as frequent touch points to strangers like frontline retail jobs are likely to be older might do worse in this circumstance.

[paulryanrogers]

Are we sure they don't get it, or are just asymptomatic in the short term.

Chicken pox is a thing parents commonly seek out for their kids around here. But in the long term the vaccine is still better at reducing long term consequences.

(Got it intentionally as a child then again [unintentionally] as a teen. Had some nerve damage since. Not looking forward to shingles.)

[kaiabwpdjqn]

That was my point of confusion on the charts for symptomatic people. I’m assuming that the relatively high rates of non symptomatic individuals implies they’re testing people without symptoms in a somewhat random sample style