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re: Local ER doc (South LA) here to answer your COVID-19 questions
Posted on 4/2/20 at 9:18 am to baldona
Posted on 4/2/20 at 9:18 am to baldona
quote:Or simply that they’re just such a large portion of the population. It’s a huge age gap 18-49. So if you have 100,000 people get sick in that group. Even a small portion could have health issues and they could take up 400 hospital beds. Whereas if just 10,000 people over 65 get sick, they could take up 2,000 beds. And there’s your “20% of beds being used by young people” narrative. The context is important and doesn’t show the doomsday picture some people want to paint about young healthy people being vulnerable.
An easy common sense explanation for this is that is the working class and travelers. Who live in cities and have been traveling for work or recreation the most? 20-44 year olds.
This post was edited on 4/2/20 at 9:19 am
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Posted on 4/2/20 at 9:20 am to ell_13
quote:Well for one it just says 18-49, it says nothing about healthy......
The context is important and doesn’t show the doomsday picture some people want to paint about young healthy people being vulnerable.
Unless Nola and br are some huge outlier, we aren’t seeing young and healthy
We are seeing old, or younger and obese/very sick
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