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Sailors are very young. You can't assume that the proportion of people who are asymptomatic to be the same for every age group. The 60% asymptomatic percentage
by Leary 7y ago
Sailors are very young. You can't assume that the proportion of people who are asymptomatic to be the same for every age group.
The 60% asymptomatic percentage is also a lot lower than some of the assumptions flowing around the internet (~90%).
- elihu 7y agoYep. From the article: > Still, the case of the Theodore Roosevelt offers a case study for researchers about how the virus spreads asymptomatically in a confined environment among mostly younger adults. ...but they don't mention what the average age is. Presumably someone has the data to produce an interesting scatterplot of age versus symptom severity.
- jki275 7y agoAverage age is probably early 20s. Huge number of first term Sailors between 18 and 22.