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Re:Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna Covi... by tshaddox on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:29PM (#28792324)
My interpretation of that phrasing is that it refers to the risk of hospitalization from a single infection of COVID-19, so I don't think the time frame matters all that much (other than perhaps much later hospitalizations from long-term effects that we still don't know a lot about yet).
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Re:Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna Covi... by Denvercoder9 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:33PM (#28792391)
> My interpretation of that phrasing is that it refers to the risk of hospitalization from a single infection of COVID-19

That interpretation is not supported by the source linked by GP. The risk you allude to (infection hospitalization rate) was generally reported as ~5% (it's probably halved now that half the population is vaccinated). See for example [0], the first Google hit I got, or the CDC COVID tracker [1], where reported hospitalizations divided by reported infections gives 3.6%.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7895685/ [1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidvi...

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Re:Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna Covi... by shusaku on Thursday October 07, 2021 @08:31PM (#28794081)
I don’t blame him for misinterpreting it though, Gallup basically made a trick question and then write an article about how stupid Americans were for getting it wrong.
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Re:Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna Covi... by nojokes on Thursday October 07, 2021 @10:19PM (#28794978)
It is also possible that people who answered got the interpretation wrong.
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