Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
by freewilly1040 on Monday August 23, 2021 @01:55PM
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Yes, given a large denominator rare events will happen. So what?
The relevant argument with kids and Delta is not about whether it happens to some people, it's whether the risk rates high enough to mobilize large scale, disruptive countermeasures.
I can only find data on deaths, not hospitalizations [1], but assuming the numbers are roughly proportional here are things that are more dangerous to kids than Delta:
- Drug ODs
- Car accidents
- Cancer
- Heart disease
- Drowning
- Suffocation
Caveat of course is that the data might be out of date, at least with respect to pockets with high rates of infection
The relevant argument with kids and Delta is not about whether it happens to some people, it's whether the risk rates high enough to mobilize large scale, disruptive countermeasures.
I can only find data on deaths, not hospitalizations [1], but assuming the numbers are roughly proportional here are things that are more dangerous to kids than Delta:
Caveat of course is that the data might be out of date, at least with respect to pockets with high rates of infection[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmsr1804754