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by ashleyn 1993 days ago
This is believable if you remember that complication rates are a variable independent from a virus's infectiousness. The more aggressively it spreads, the more likely at least one person will need hospitalisation, even in a virus with a very low complication rate in general. Or, in other words, there are so many children getting it that the 0.002% complication rate or whatever it was starts showing more.
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Isn’t that the “law of large numbers” or something?