Re:Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case
by qbasic_forever on Friday February 11, 2022 @03:48AM
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Life insurers are already seeing it play out too, there was a 40% increase in life insurance claims for working age adults in the last couple years: https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/longevity/58... A significant amount of people are dying unexpectedly early.
Re:Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case
by usrusr on Friday February 11, 2022 @05:02AM
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...and that's a generously low lower bound, because at this point, the only thing that could prevent a percentage approaching 100% would be a (near) extinction event like an asteroid strike or an all-out nuclear war.
Re:Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case
by jd115 on Friday February 11, 2022 @05:45AM
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Luckily, the latter is not entirely out of the question now! (Thank you Russia!)
This means that for every million people who got COVID-19, we would expect 4,000 more strokes. Using a lower-bound estimate that 50% of the population will get COVID-19 at some point, this would mean roughly 650,000 more cases in the US alone (~330 million people), and this is in addition to baseline. A totally devastating pandemic.