Re:Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expecte...
by makomk on Thursday June 10, 2021 @03:46PM
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The trouble is that the people apparently at risk from this are not the people at risk from Covid-19. The risk to people between the ages of 12 and 24 from Covid is really, really small. Especially towards the lower end of that age range, most countries seem to be seeing low single-digit per million deaths: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4...
Re:Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expecte...
by jlokier on Thursday June 10, 2021 @04:10PM
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The risk of death from Covid-19 is low in that age range.
But what about the risk of heart inflammation from Covid-19 in that age group, possibly with no other Covid symptoms?
You can look at the risk of what it's preventing (covid has already killed ~1700 people per million in the US), or compare to other activities and risk levels.
Relative risk comparisons between different activities are often not useful. For example, the risk of shark-death at the beach might look alarming when compared to my risk of shark-death-at-home, but actually it's vanishingly unlikely.