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Re:Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke ... by FuckButtons on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @01:46AM (#23767228)
A preprint I was reading yesterday noted an 8 fold increase in risk of stroke in COVID patients vs severe flu patients. COVID is dangerous, it’s not the flu, but nor is it the Black Death. It’s far more dangerous for the elderly than flu. But more importantly for everyone else, Lock downs are a response not to the individual risk of the disease but to the collective risk of not having a functioning healthcare system.
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Re:Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke ... by s1artibartfast on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:37AM (#23767475)
>A preprint I was reading yesterday noted an 8 fold increase in risk of stroke in COVID patients vs severe flu patients.

The problem I have with these statement is the lack of context. Does the additional risk of stroke in COVID patients meaningfully impact the overall risk profile? If an elderly person has say a X% chance of death from COVID, and a 0.00X% of stroke, news reporting on this for public consumption is just fear mongering.

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