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by scott_s 2248 days ago
Everyone is at risk from Covid-19. Younger people are at less risk, but they are still at risk, both from suffering a severe case, and from death.
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glofish 2248 days ago
As of April 17, in the age group of 15-24, 13 deaths were attributable to COVID-19, 37 to influenza.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/

If you are a college student the risk of dying of alcohol poisoning is higher than of COVID-19.

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CardenB 2245 days ago
But how many people had COVID vs influenza?

It doesn’t list case fatality rate, so your argument is just like everyone who says “the flu is deadlier than COVID”. Flu cases aren’t growing exponentially.

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scott_s 2247 days ago
If school was back in session, that number would probably be much higher. Remember, these are the numbers with the most massive pause on our economy and society that we’ve seen in our lifetime. Young people are not immune.
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glofish 2246 days ago
all the evidence points to an extremely strong age dependency on both infection likelihood, and most importantly on the severity of cases.

Nothing is ever 100% but if the rest of the population had the same characteristics as the youth there would be no reason for a lockdown to begin with. We are talking about death rates of 1 in 100K cases.

For young people the flu is far more dangerous than COVID-19. Of course for alarmists this is heresy that should be never talked about.

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