Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/11/continuing-to-state-the-obvious-on-vulnerability-to-covid-19-due-to-aging/
Not every SARS-CoV-2 infection in the COVID-19 pandemic is equal. Young people near all shrug off infection with a few weeks of inconvenience at worst. Old people, on the other hand, exhibit more significant illness and a high mortality rate. That mortality rate increases with both advancing age and the presence of inflammatory age-related chronic disease. The average 20 year old has a radically different risk profile when compared to the average 80 year old. This is one of the reasons why the commonly presented data, estimated infections per capita, or detected infections over time, is unhelpful. It needs the context of the age of the patients.
The popular media shows no inclination to correctly present SARS-CoV-2 as being a meaningful threat only to older people, tending to focus on overall infection counts…
Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/11/continuing-to-state-the-obvious-on-vulnerability-to-covid-19-due-to-aging/
Not every SARS-CoV-2 infection in the COVID-19 pandemic is equal. Young people near all shrug off infection with a few weeks of inconvenience at worst. Old people, on the other hand, exhibit more significant illness and a high mortality rate. That mortality rate increases with both advancing age and the presence of inflammatory age-related chronic disease. The average 20 year old has a radically different risk profile when compared to the average 80 year old. This is one of the reasons why the commonly presented data, estimated infections per capita, or detected infections over time, is unhelpful. It needs the context of the age of the patients.
The popular media shows no inclination to correctly present SARS-CoV-2 as being a meaningful threat only to older people, tending to focus on overall infection counts…
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