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by DanBC 1969 days ago
> I'm convinced using evidence and data. The danger presented by Covid to otherwise healthy adults and children under 60 is extremely minimal

ICNARC: (22/01/2021) https://www.icnarc.org/Our-Audit/Audits/Cmp/Reports

Mean age of admission to ICU is 59.8

45% of the people admitted to ICU are under the age of 60.

88% of people admitted to ICU were able to live with no assistance in day to day life before being admitted.

Most people admitted did not have very severe comorbidities (cardio, respiratory, renal, livel, metastatic, haematological malignancy, immunocompromised).

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83.29% of patients who died from COVID-19 had a comorbidity. As a patient’s number of comorbidities increased, so did the odds of dying from COVID-19.

https://www.ajmc.com/view/contributor-links-between-covid-19...

We know that people with learning disability often live in homes that are crowded, staffed by people on low pay without access to sick pay; and that medical care in general is not as good as for people without LD.

In the UK we know that doctors often use DNACPRs for people with LD without asking those people or their families, and they do this more than they do for people without LD, and they often use blanket criteria ("does this person have LD?") to do so (this is against the law in England but we know it happens).

Your link is telling us of a scandal of poor care for people with LD that's killing them many years before they would otherwise die. I don't think it's telling us what you think it is, especially since my post is people being put in ICU, not dying, from covid.