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Do you have a citation for the common cold being fatal for 8% of people over 75. That doesn't pass the sniff test. One in 12 people who catch a cold die from it
by underwater 6y ago
Do you have a citation for the common cold being fatal for 8% of people over 75. That doesn't pass the sniff test. One in 12 people who catch a cold die from it?
- rurban 6y agoYes. 8% in the target group die from the common cold. 20% from Covid-19. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2095096/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2095096/ Severity of the latest mutations: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.28.21250680v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.28.21250680v...
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- underwater 6y agoThat first link is about a particular strain of coronavirus (which causes lower respiratory tract infections) amongst 95 residents of a care facility. How does that generalise to all forms of the common cold and all over 75's?