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Average age 40, as you said yourself. And then as the authors of this paper find, "Risks were greatest in, but not limited to, those who had severe COVID-19."
by Mediterraneo10 6y ago
Average age 40, as you said yourself. And then as the authors of this paper find, "Risks were greatest in, but not limited to, those who had severe COVID-19."
- rcpt 6y agothe "but not limited to" is the important part
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoIt doesn’t matter if these longer-term symptoms affect some number of people outside that older, frailer risk group. There are always statistical outliers. If the amount of younger, stronger people affected by these symptoms is small, then that weakens the case for maintaining restrictions after vaccination of the most at-risk groups. This issue seems to be important to you personally and to others whose concerns may or may not be reasonable, but I don’t believe it will be important to most of society as vaccinations roll out and the Northern Hemisphere spring and summer are upon us.
- rcpt 6y ago> statistical outliers This is the claim I'm disputing. I don't see evidence that this is so rare. In fact everything I can find suggests otherwise. To be clear, I hate this.
- chc 6y agoFraming an "average age of 40" as "an older demographic" seems a bit misleading, as the average age of human beings in America is 38. We're not talking a few sickly senior citizens here (which, even if we were, I wouldn't feel justified in writing off, but it's not).
- inter_netuser 6y agoThat just means America is graying. Your thymus is very likely to be useless after 40 due to something called thymus involution.