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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Right. In this context, "mild" includes people who develop pneumonia from COVID-19 but don't need to be hospitalized. Mild doesn't mean the sniffles.[/quote]

And not all pneumonia is serious.  Many people hear "pneumonia" and think very serious illness, when there are many mild cases with people walking around with it and not even knowing.  So just that being thrown out makes it sound scarier than it usually is.[/quote]

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