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This.. >"kids don't get sick from it" ..isn't strictly true. A quick look at the local (Danish) health department says that the hospitalisation rate of 0-9 ye
by Daho0n 6y ago
This..
>"kids don't get sick from it"
..isn't strictly true. A quick look at the local (Danish) health department says that the hospitalisation rate of 0-9 year olds are 181 out of 17004 confirmed cases and 10-19 yo 180 out of 36065 confirmed. 23% of those had an underlying disease.
Hospitalisation is defined as someone who have been hospitalised for at least 12 hours with something covid related inside 14 days from a positive test result.
So while only something like 1% needs to go to hospital compared to 27% of the 70-79 age group they do get sick and so get long-term damage too.
- katbyte 6y agoThey also spread it
- frosted-flakes 6y ago[Nitpick fixed. Thanks.]
- bluGill 6y agoThe period as a thousands separator is common in some English speaking areas. A minority of them for sure, but there are a few that do it that way.
- frosted-flakes 6y agoWhich ones? I tried to find some before submitting my previous comment, but was unable to find any.
- taeric 6y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator My favorite one is India's tradition of grouping by hundred thousand.
- frosted-flakes 6y agoAll of the English-speaking areas listed on that page use a period as a decimal separator. Interestingly, Canada uses both characters as decimal separators, but English always uses a period, and French always uses a comma. That's probably also why Canada also uses a space as a thousands separator, not a comma like the US.
- dewy 6y agoOP's country of Denmark, for one!: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator See the Examples of Use section of that Wikipedia page for a more extensive list.
- frosted-flakes 6y agoDenmark is not an English-speaking area though.
- ouchjars 6y agoI see it as a feature of Euro English, like writing "XIV century" instead of "19th" or saying "actual" with the meaning of "current". Language change caused by an influx of non-native speakers is not a new thing for English.
- tomtheelder 6y agoIt's definitely worth mentioning that "confirmed cases" is going to be a small fraction of actual cases, _especially_ for young people whose disease is most often mild or asymptomatic. I would not be surprised if the number of actual cases were an order of magnitude larger in those cohorts.