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I'm sorry about your wife, hope she gets through it fine. It's mainly that you provided a personal anecdote in one direction and I found it prudent to provide

• hedgehog 5y ago
  Motivated anecdotes aren't prudent or useful. We know from the 2ish years of this we've had so far that the dynamics are tricky to pick apart. For example when young low-risk people are out at bars (very high exposure) and older or higher risk people stay home what happens is the hospitalizations lag because it takes some time for the first group to get sick, infect the second, and then some of those people to go on to the hospital. On the other hand older people are much more vaccinated so the relative risk between the groups will likely be different from previous waves. That aside, hospitalizations are going up faster than they have at any point prior so not sure where your "barely nudging" comes from.