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Age isn’t the only factor how many Americans under the age of 50 are living with a compromised immune system and other factors vs Hatians?
by dogma1138 4y ago
Age isn’t the only factor how many Americans under the age of 50 are living with a compromised immune system and other factors vs Hatians?
- walterbell 4y agoOverall immunocompromised in the US is 3%, so that number will be smaller after the elderly are excluded. If we discount 136 per million by 3% (max), that leaves about 132 US deaths per million for non-immunocompromised people below 50 years. Per other comments and a linked article, poor Haitian healthcare infrastructure means that people with chronic conditions often die from those conditions, so the number of 78 Haitian deaths per million is unlikely to change due to immunocompromised people, https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/12/16/haiti-has-lower-coronavirus-death-counts-with-few-restrictions-why/ https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/12/16/haiti-has-lo... > in (the U.S.) people who have those diseases, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, we extend their life by giving them good health treatment. Well in Haiti, people don’t have access to that treatment. ... If you’re elderly and you have a disease, you die if you live in the provinces. While the brainstorming and proposed theories are interesting, there are three years of articles linked above, which all conclude that the reasons remain unknown. Obvious factors like age, location, vaccines, masks and lockdowns have already been ruled out as a singular explanation. Genetics might be a possibility. This seems like a topic worthy of scientific study, not just for Haiti, with potential lessons for billions of people around the world.