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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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