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Re:The Great Barrington Declaration by nradov on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:04AM (#24755094)
Sure that's a factor, but how do you account for Ecuador with a median age of 28 and a higher per capita death rate than the UK or USA? Ecuador has less healthcare capacity but that can't account for the whole difference. Conversely, Sweden has a median age of 41 and a lower death rate.
Re:The Great Barrington Declaration by cameldrv on Monday October 12, 2020 @02:56PM (#24758039)
It's a statistical association, not a rule. I can't say specifically why those two countries have had the results that they have, but the age dependence holds both at the individual and country levels overall. That also doesn't mean that you can't find a 100 year old survivor and a 20 year old that dies from it.