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You might be deadly wrong.

About half of those infected in New York City are under 50

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/nyregion/coronavirus-new-...

...preliminary figures released on Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that adults ages 20 to 44 represent nearly one-third of U.S. coronavirus patients whose ages are known.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/health/coronavirus-millen...

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Anyone can get infected of course. Does that surprise you? The study was regarding fatalities.

In any case, it's not me who you're calling "deadly" wrong, it's the Italian Ministry of Health.

CDC published numbers on Wednesday night that 40% of hospitalizations for COVID-19 in the US are adults younger than the age of 54.

Sure they're not fatalities, but do you really want to go to an overcrowded hospital for COVID-19? (Will be worse when ventilators run out and hospitalization can't help you nearly as much)

Only 2.8% of all hospitalizations that required an ICU were people under 45 years old, though, and we have no idea what underlying health problems they may have had.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm

The second link summarizes how unhealthy are millenials. What will happen when ICU capacity is not enough? There was another study suggesting that being exposed to the virus fast vs slow makes the difference, can't find it now. Crowded hospitals with millenials will surely make a difference for all.

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