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Re:Making Vaccine by maxerickson on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:15PM (#26042426)
It lists the total population for each age group. Just the 35 to 44 age group is above 99.98% (given the death counts in younger age groups it's obviously still true if you include them in the calculation):

(1-7057/41659144)*100=99.983%

I expect the individual probability of surviving infection is not that high for each member of the group though. It's not clear if that meaning is intended anywhere above.

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Re:Making Vaccine by dragontamer on Friday February 05, 2021 @07:58PM (#26043099)
> 41659144

That's the total population of all 35 to 44 year olds in all of the USA.

> 99.983%

That's 0.02% of all 35 to 44 year olds have died, including those who never had COVID. IN ONE MONTH, not including the people who died two months ago, or 3 months ago.

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Re:Making Vaccine by maxerickson on Friday February 05, 2021 @08:02PM (#26043134)
"from 1/1/2020 to 1/30/2021"

It's for the entire period of the pandemic.

You are correct in pointing out that it isn't looking at deaths/infection.

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Re:Making Vaccine by dragontamer on Monday February 08, 2021 @04:30PM (#26070427)
I do appreciate the correction by the way.
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