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Re:The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered by soperj on Friday April 23, 2021 @03:29PM (#26918277)
In the US, more people in the 55-74 age range have died than the 85+. Those are people who are taking care of grand children, or are still working. These are people that society has spent decades making fully functioning parts of society. A child has had none of that investment.

A society of just children wouldn't work, just as a society without wouldn't work.

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Re:The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered by fastball on Friday April 23, 2021 @03:48PM (#26918455)
Is your goal to just be as misleading as possible in this conversation?

Yes, of course more 55-74s have died – there are far, far more of them than there are >85s. Normalized, COVID is far more lethal (8x more lethal) for >85s than for your range. Here's the mortality rates:

55-74: 0.28%

85+: 2.5%

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241488/population-of-the...

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

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Re:The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered by soperj on Friday April 23, 2021 @04:23PM (#26918784)
How in any way is that misleading?

The actual numbers are more representative than lethality percentages when we're talking about contribution to society.

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Re:The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered by StavrosK on Friday April 23, 2021 @04:48PM (#26919025)
What's more representative is "life years lost", and malaria wins there (we've lost many more years to it).
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Re:The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered by soperj on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:19PM (#26920403)
How do you calculate that in an area of the world with the highest rate of child mortality?
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Re:The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered by StavrosK on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:23PM (#26920439)
Same as in any other area, assume malaria isn't killing babies and do the math. Your question sounds rhetorical but is too simple to answer, so I'm confused.
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