Re:The disease-induced herd immunity level for Covid-19 is l...
by irq11 on Sunday May 10, 2020 @01:28AM
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Yeah, I read that anecdote, too. Saying “many people” is meaningless. A tenth of a percent of a million people is a thousand people. That’s “many people”, but the rate is quite low.
Facts: in the US, the hospitalization rate for covid is around 4.6 per 100,000. It’s half that for people under age 50. The rate of serious disease is very, very low...and this includes high-risk groups:
> Many people think COVID-19 kills 1% of patients, and the rest get away with some flulike symptoms. But the story gets more complicated. Many people will be left with chronic kidney and heart problems. Even their neural system is disrupted. There will be hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, possibly more, who will need treatments such as renal dialysis for the rest of their lives. The more we learn about the coronavirus, the more questions arise. We are learning while we are sailing. That’s why I get so annoyed by the many commentators on the sidelines who, without much insight, criticize the scientists and policymakers trying hard to get the epidemic under control. That’s very unfair.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/finally-virus-got-me...