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Assuming you're somewhere between 20 and 30, your risk of dying when contracting COVID-19 is somewhere around 0.01%, so 1 in 10,000. I'm not including the chanc

Assuming you're somewhere between 20 and 30, your risk of dying when contracting COVID-19 is somewhere around 0.01%, so 1 in 10,000. I'm not including the chance for severe side effects, hospitalization here (I don't know a good data source for those that is age-specific). That's a lot lower than the risk for older people, but it's still a somewhat high absolute risk. Personally, I'd get vaccinated. The risk even for young people is still there, and it's not that low. The source for these numbers is the following paper, specifically figure 2a: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2918-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2918-0

LandR 6y ago
> I'm not including the chance for severe side effects, hospitalization here (I don't know a good data source for those that is age-specific). From the Scottish Government figures.The hospitalization to confirmed cases breaks down like this for age: Age Cases Hospitilizations 0-4 1417 77 (5.4%) 5-14 3933 44 (1.1%) 15-19 7766 46 (0.5%) 20-24 9035 79 (0.8%) 25-44 28690 867 (3.0%) Everyone should get the vaccine.
- totony 6y ago
  That's confirmed cases so take these figures with a grain of salt. E.g. those are (probably) upper bounds EDIT: Here are the stats for the seasonal flu: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html tldr: 1-2% hospitalization average