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That is insanity. Flat is absolutely the best we can do. Herd immunity is a fallacy when the result of loosening social distancing restrictions is to overwhelm
by ttul 7y ago
That is insanity. Flat is absolutely the best we can do. Herd immunity is a fallacy when the result of loosening social distancing restrictions is to overwhelm the medical system and cause unnecessary death.
Let young people congregate? A healthy fraction of those hospitalized with COVID-19 are young. They may survive better, but they take up a lot of ventilators in the process. Run out of ventilators and those young people will die in large numbers.
No, the only reasonable endgame to COVID-19 is to flatten the curve and keep it flat until we have some treatment tools that work. Ultimately, a vaccine. But until then, drug therapies that have been proven out in reasonably sized trials.
- rimliu 7y agoCan you provide the numbers for those young people on ventilators?
- eBombzor 7y agohttps://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/coronavirus-making-young-adults-sick-and-spreading-through-them?utm_source=fiat-lux&utm_medium=internal-email&utm_campaign=article-general&utm_content=text https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/coronavirus-maki... https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm > Among the first 4,226 cases in the U.S., more than half of patients who were hospitalized were under the age of 65, and one in five were aged 20 to 44. No source on ventilators but "hospitalized" is close enough.
- DeonPenny 7y agoThis seems to be one of those lies that keep getting circulated. 44 is not young. when you really look at the data yes 1/5 are hospitalized, but if you 40-50 you are .4% likely to die if your 30-40 it's 4 times less likely .1% and if your 20 -30 its ten times less likely. Its like they presented the data that way just to scare people.