Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier are symptom-free

Re:Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier... by usaar333 on Thursday April 16, 2020 @06:46PM (#22894353)

Fair enough, but would there be a reason it would be different? And even if it were, is that actually relevant?

Anyway, here's some IFR estimations for covid by Imperial college: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

You see significantly higher multipliers by age group than for flu. As one example, they are guessing teenagers have 1/17th the mortality rate of say a 40 year old. For flu (going by deaths), it's about 1/5th.

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Re:Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier... by ashtonkem on Thursday April 16, 2020 @07:05PM (#22894502)

There is absolutely plenty of reason for the infection rate to be different by demographic: we closed schools down. We don’t do that for the flu.

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Re:Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier... by usaar333 on Thursday April 16, 2020 @07:20PM (#22894587)

We also don't Shelter in place for flu. Bay Area school closure date is 1 day before SIP.

Sweden and Iceland never closed schools for young kids. Data doesn't look any different.

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Re:Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier... by kaitai on Thursday April 16, 2020 @11:10PM (#22895874)

Sweden has a substantially higher case fatality rate for COVID-19 compared to other industrialized nations, so it's an interesting case.

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Re:Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier... by ashtonkem on Thursday April 16, 2020 @07:28PM (#22894634)

That’s a good argument.

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