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It’s the same problem there is with test numbers:
You find what you look for, you don’t find what you don’t look for.
Netherlands are testing the general population. Italy, for example, is testing those most at risk. US is looking at cost.
What they find will not be comparable.
I believe I read that same statistic for France. Not good.
Maybe G-Cov (northern Europe and Russia) has a higher youth infection rate. Would be nice to get some type of data out of northern Germany. England and France going log.
These reports are sucky, but really a lot of the people on this thread for weeks have seen that coming - ever since we mourned for Li Wenliang. The stuff out of Iran has been really clear: this doesn’t spare people in their 20s. And despite the paucity of data about children, having run my 3 kids to the ER enough times with croup, flu, strep, etc - I’d be a monkey’s uncle if this virus really automagically skips them!! And now low and behold, the data is starting to say maybe a lot of them will get pneumonia - and that will certainly lead to deaths if you infect enough of them.
This thread has been fantastic - the BEST of FR as I told John Robinson on twitter last week! Keep it up guys this coming together of data and thoughts could help save lives. God Bless you all.
Many young people got very sick in China.
This has been well known for a long time.
Newbies (and that include public health officials) are so transfixed by the death figures that they are ignoring the hospitalization figures.