I wrote more in another comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28391526 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28391526 Basically the qcovid calculator t

I wrote more in another comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28391526 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28391526 Basically the qcovid calculator tells you the overall risk during a specific period of the pandemic . Most people didn't get covid during that period, which makes the overall risk appear very low. However, if you do contract covid (which seems inevitable if it becomes endemic) then the individual risk of hospitalisation is much higher - 1%+ for even young adults.