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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, a "mild" case does not mean two weeks of impairment.  A mild case means a barely symptomatic case with no actual impairment.  It has been estimated that 85% (of the general population, not student age)  of infected people have asymptomatic or mild cases.[/quote]

Right, it all depends and it varies.  My 25 yo niece simply had what seemed like a cold, although she did lose her sense of taste and smell.  [/quote]

The point is that it varies--but if you look at how the studies which make claims about %ages of mild cases, any case that doesn't meet the threshold for hospitalization counts as mild.  The 5% that are not "mild" and not hospitalized are often those in settings (e.g. long-term care, mental health institution) where they may have qualified to be hospitalized but were not.

There's been debate about this--the epidemiological use of "mild" is being conflated with everyday person's view of "mild" and make them overly sanguine about risk.[/quote]

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