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Re:Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new... by gilbetron on Thursday September 02, 2021 @10:41AM (#28392658)
I should've posted where I got the values for Covid risk, my bad. I used this: https://qcovid.org/Calculation and did it for a healthy 25 year old, and then rounded. I don't know exactly what the different between what I used and what the Economist used, but I'm guessing the Economist is using a dataset of people that skewed more symptomatic?
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Re:Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new... by leoedin on Thursday September 02, 2021 @05:33PM (#28397650)
I wrote more in another comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28391526

Basically the qcovid calculator tells you the overall risk during a specific period of the pandemic . Most people didn't get covid during that period, which makes the overall risk appear very low.

However, if you do contract covid (which seems inevitable if it becomes endemic) then the individual risk of hospitalisation is much higher - 1%+ for even young adults.

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