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If you read the literature, they compare a symptomatic viral infection to having your hand or foot broken, or a pelvic fracture, or a mild to severe head trauma
by neilmock 6y ago
If you read the literature, they compare a symptomatic viral infection to having your hand or foot broken, or a pelvic fracture, or a mild to severe head trauma. I do not see any evidence of those things being equivalent.
- chishaku 6y agoThe paper doesn't make those things equivalent. Best case, your comment is an oversimplification of what the authors spent a dozen or so pages explaining. The limitations they describe perhaps encompass some of your concern. They also describe alternative calculations.
- kube-system 6y agoFor the person who suffers them, they are not equivalent. But that isn't what is being measured. When measuring economic impact, they could very well be equivalent. A dollar lost when someone can't work due to a broken bone is economically equivalent to a dollar lost when someone bedridden with a virus.
- NationalPark 6y agoOn the surface it doesn't seem like a bad comparison. Out of work for weeks, potentially protracted recovery including possible long term limitations. What's the problem?