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It's about containing the spread to spare risky populations and minimize hospital overload. Also the bit about being no worse than the flu is not true for any
by allovernow 7y ago
It's about containing the spread to spare risky populations and minimize hospital overload.
Also the bit about being no worse than the flu is not true for any age group.
- zamfi 7y ago> Also the bit about being no worse than the flu is not true for any age group It does appear to be true for the very young (ages 0-9), who are at relatively high risk from flu (especially <2), but at shockingly low risk at dying from COVID-19. Admittedly not the population in consideration here.
- allovernow 7y agoYou're right about that. Children are practically immune. As I understand this has to do with innate vs acquired immunity. Children are born with very strong innate immunity and as we age innate immunity decreases while acquired immunity increases, untill old age where both decline.
- zamfi 7y agoHuh, interesting hypothesis. But I wonder why flu hits very young children so hard, then? Is SARS-CoV-2 more handily defeated by the innate system than flu?
- watwut 7y agoNew born child immune system is pretty weak. But from what I gathered, coronavirus deaths are all about pneumonia and lungs. Old peoples lungs are damaged due to being used for years.