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Re:Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke ... by gridlockd on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @06:08AM (#23768484)
> People using the "they were going to die anyway" argument need to explain why they didn't die last year, or next year, but died this year, and died in huge numbers. Excess mortality is pretty high.

That's not the argument I am making. A lot of older people indeed died sooner than they otherwise would have. COVID is statistically more dangerous to them than Influenza, but also COVID spreads more rapidly than Influenza in a population with zero immunity.

> Research tells us people are dying more than 10 years early.

This is significantly lower than the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, which averaged above 20 YLL per case:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3792731/

This underlines my point that for younger age groups, COVID is statistically less dangerous than Influenza.

Again, the question is not whether COVID is dangerous. It certainly is. The question is, how dangerous?

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Re:Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke ... by jquery on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:53AM (#23770431)
If I’m reading your link right, it’s 22 years of life lost per 100,000, not per case. I could be misunderstanding.
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Re:Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke ... by gridlockd on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @01:57PM (#23772444)
They didn't give an average per case in this study, I arrived there by dividing the total amount of years lost by the amount of deaths (1,540/72 = 21.39).

That just happens to be close to the years lost per 100k.

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