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How does that compare, with other high IFR diseases, didn't they also have deaths skewed towards older people?

• newacct583 7y ago
  To be perfectly fair (and for the record I'm very much not among the "sacrifice the old and weak" set!): not as much as covid. The elderly and immunocompromised obviously die more to almost every illness. But the effect is really pronounced with covid. And most other viral infections tend to kill children at higher rates too, and covid very notably does not. It's definitely an interesting aspect of the disease, though it's produce a kind of horrifying calculus among a lot of the right wing in the US.
• rootusrootus 7y ago
  The 1918 flu was notable for having a high fatality rate for young children. That does not seem to be the case for flu in general.