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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
If you read the MMWR, it's not just boomers.
Emphasis mine. 20 percent of those in the hospital are in the 20-44 age range.
All of these stats are fucked because we don't have a good sense of who actually has it because the testing has been such a cock up. But the Boomers aren't the only ones taking up those beds. |
No, they aren't, but that same study notes that only 12% of ICU admissions are 20-44. And we don't have info on co-morbidities among the younger crowd.
This is a depressing but also fascinating article about how covid has already killed three people within a single family, and hospitalized a few others:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/n...ronavirus.html
Two who died were only 55, the other one 73. Initially, this would cause one to consider if certain people have unique genetic susceptibility to this, or if this was a particularly virulent strain (Wuhan S vs. Wuhan L). But then also you have to consider co-morbidities. The younger dead here did not appear terribly physically fit. There might be diabetes, there might history of weak hearts.
I'm sure the epidemiologists are cross-referencing co-morbidities and we'll have some data sets on that soon enough. That's a wealth of information that may allow us to better segregate the most high risk individuals across all age categories.
