Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
by rayiner on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @05:47PM
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I would probably frame that the opposite way. People under 65 have a pretty low risk of COVID. Less than 20% of COVID deaths are for people under 65, and only 3% are people under 45. Liberal politics might convince a young, healthy 35 year old to get vaccinated out of concern for others. Geography also matters. There is a visceral awareness of being exposed to others’ germs in a place like NYC that’s simply absent in Iowa or Utah. A guy who takes a bus to work every day is going to be acutely aware of transmission risks in a way that a guy who drives to work every day won’t.
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Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
by random314 on Thursday September 16, 2021 @12:46AM
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The 65-115 year old category is too big to compare with other age deciles.
For representative comparison deaths in 65-75 age group is 144K and 50-65 age group is 106K, they are a comparable risk group[1]. In my urban county of 2M whites in 50-64 have the lowest vaccination rate in the 60s. Asians have a 95% vaccination rate in the same age group.
The simple fact that Republican dominated counties have their beds and ICUs overflowing[2] after wide vaccine availability while congested New York does not paints a very clear picture that it is not liberal politics that is causing pandemic issues, but conservative politics.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/19/us/alabama-icu-shortage.h...