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There may be other ways to reduce risk if you belong to the at risk population, though. Those statistics all have to be taken with a grain of salt. Like if it
by blackmagicjs 6y ago
There may be other ways to reduce risk if you belong to the at risk population, though.
Those statistics all have to be taken with a grain of salt. Like if it says "x% of some population will die from some thing", it could mean "x% in the population tend to be reckless" (like "x% of people under 30 will die from base jumping", but it is easy to avoid by not doing base jumping).
In the case of Covid, perhaps not living in an old people's home (in March) could improve your odds by a lot.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoThere may be in general, but in this case I don't think it's a factor. Something like 40% of deaths have happened in nursing homes, where residents don't have much agency to reduce their individual risk.
- blackmagicjs 6y agoBut that would distort the risk for "people over 80", wouldn't it? Like if you are in a nursing home, the risk is probably higher than average for that age group, if you are not, the risk is lower than average.
- ping_pong 6y agoAt least in the UK, 75% of deaths from covid are from people 75 and older. I imagine that it's similar here in the US.