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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This isn't much better for young people in US.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/younger-adults-comprise-big-portion-of-coronavirus-hospitalizations-in-us/ar-BB11nGEB?li=BBnb7Kz

Not sure why.  Maybe our obesity rate is catching up to us. [/quote]

We have more young people in the US.  Some younger people get seriously ill from the virus.  More young people than old people =more younger people ill in terms of absolute numbers and in terms of % of hospital population.  I've read that there really aren't more young people getting extremely sick in the US in terms of % of that population.

I think this story is getting pushed as a counterpoint to the "young people don't get sick from the virus" narrative, which is fine with me.  It just seems a lot of people are jumping to conclusions that aren't warranted.   [/quote]

Just throwing this out there for thought, but does anyone think that this virus has been with us longer than the last several months?  My kids had these symptoms back in November/December....basically a severe flu that lingered for weeks on end.  Schools here in VA had lots of sickness/outages.  We all just assumed bad colds lingering, the flu lingering, and/or something in the air (bad allergies?).  Even I got sick (cough, achy, etc.), for several weeks on end, which was very unusual.   My kids were tested (negative for the flu) at the time, but coronavirus wasn't a "known" at the time, so no real diagnosis.  Sent home with steroids/antibiotics to combat the cough and fight onset of what was thought to be pneumonia.  I'm not trying to downplay any of the issues or severity of what's happening right now.  Just curious.....[/quote]

If it was circulating much earlier, then wouldn’t that mean it is very widespread already, and so shouldn’t we see the healthcare system already overwhelmed?  If the exponential growth models are correct, then it would seem impossible for so many people to have had it in December and yet die there to be so few people in hospital with it now. [/quote]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/28/coronavirus-may-have-been-in-italy-for-weeks-before-it-was-detected[/quote]

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