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Re:Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars by sdkaufman on Monday March 16, 2020 @02:04AM (#22590419)
> Young People at the lowest risk from this virus are going to be much worse off than just catching a fucking bad cold.

It's not a "fucking bad cold" for young people.

- Over 50% of ICU patients in Netherlands from COVID-19 are under 50. [1]

- Over 50% of ICU patients in France are under 60. [2]

- Over 40% of patients requiring hospitalization in China were under 50. [3]

Young people are not invincible. The fact that they can use up a significant chunk of already scarce medical resources suggests that we really shouldn't be sending that message and encouraging young people to not give a sh*t about the epidemic.

[1] https://www.ad.nl/dossier-coronavirus/40-a-50-nederlandse-co...

[2] https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/03/300-...

[3] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2002032

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Re:Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars by kqr on Monday March 16, 2020 @02:34AM (#22590524)
Those numbers measure the wrong thing. The proportion of young people in care means nothing without knowing also the proportion of young people infected.
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Re:Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars by blueblisters on Monday March 16, 2020 @03:34AM (#22590775)
South Korea had a large proportion of young infected people: https://medium.com/@andreasbackhausab/coronavirus-why-its-so...
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Re:Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars by dx034 on Monday March 16, 2020 @07:27AM (#22591760)
Even if the number of young infected is much larger, it still means a significant number of young people need hospital treatment. A cold basically never needs hospital treatment. So it may not be deadly for the young but it's certainly not a bad cold.
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Re:Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars by easytiger on Monday March 16, 2020 @03:28AM (#22590750)
Well if you triage patients and ventilate people much more likely to survive, that's what the numbers might end up being
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Re:Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars by sdkaufman on Monday March 16, 2020 @03:39AM (#22590795)
No, triage based on likelihood of survival has not been happening widely yet in France and the Netherlands (thankfully).
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