Israel may have achieved herd immunity against Covid-19

Re:Israel may have achieved herd immunity against Covid-19 by Daho0n on Thursday April 08, 2021 @09:45AM (#26738596)

This..

>"kids don't get sick from it"

..isn't strictly true. A quick look at the local (Danish) health department says that the hospitalisation rate of 0-9 year olds are 181 out of 17004 confirmed cases and 10-19 yo 180 out of 36065 confirmed. 23% of those had an underlying disease.

Hospitalisation is defined as someone who have been hospitalised for at least 12 hours with something covid related inside 14 days from a positive test result.

So while only something like 1% needs to go to hospital compared to 27% of the 70-79 age group they do get sick and so get long-term damage too.

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Re:Israel may have achieved herd immunity against Covid-19 by tomtheelder on Thursday April 08, 2021 @01:24PM (#26741436)

It's definitely worth mentioning that "confirmed cases" is going to be a small fraction of actual cases, _especially_ for young people whose disease is most often mild or asymptomatic. I would not be surprised if the number of actual cases were an order of magnitude larger in those cohorts.

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Re:Israel may have achieved herd immunity against Covid-19 by frosted-flakes on Thursday April 08, 2021 @10:23AM (#26739051)

[Nitpick fixed. Thanks.]

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Re:Israel may have achieved herd immunity against Covid-19 by bluGill on Thursday April 08, 2021 @11:41AM (#26740165)

The period as a thousands separator is common in some English speaking areas. A minority of them for sure, but there are a few that do it that way.

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Re:Israel may have achieved herd immunity against Covid-19 by frosted-flakes on Thursday April 08, 2021 @11:45AM (#26740202)

Which ones? I tried to find some before submitting my previous comment, but was unable to find any.

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Re:Israel may have achieved herd immunity against Covid-19 by taeric on Thursday April 08, 2021 @11:56AM (#26740348)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator

My favorite one is India's tradition of grouping by hundred thousand.

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Re:Israel may have achieved herd immunity against Covid-19 by frosted-flakes on Thursday April 08, 2021 @02:20PM (#26742007)

All of the English-speaking areas listed on that page use a period as a decimal separator.

Interestingly, Canada uses both characters as decimal separators, but English always uses a period, and French always uses a comma. That's probably also why Canada also uses a space as a thousands separator, not a comma like the US.

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Re:Israel may have achieved herd immunity against Covid-19 by dewy on Thursday April 08, 2021 @12:02PM (#26740409)

OP's country of Denmark, for one!: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator

See the Examples of Use section of that Wikipedia page for a more extensive list.

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Re:Israel may have achieved herd immunity against Covid-19 by frosted-flakes on Thursday April 08, 2021 @02:21PM (#26742024)

Denmark is not an English-speaking area though.

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Re:Israel may have achieved herd immunity against Covid-19 by ouchjars on Thursday April 08, 2021 @12:14PM (#26740561)

I see it as a feature of Euro English, like writing "XIV century" instead of "19th" or saying "actual" with the meaning of "current". Language change caused by an influx of non-native speakers is not a new thing for English.

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