Reply to Have you sorted out the logistics of your pod yet?

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "Have you sorted out the logistics of your pod yet?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll also note that Florida's pediatric COVID mortality rate (17.5 per 100,000) is in the same ballpark as the annual motor vehicle mortality rate (11.18 per 100,000 in 2018).

I'm not trying to say that COVID isn't very serious.  I'm just disputing that the pediatric numbers out of Florida are particularly new, surprising, or dire.[/quote]

But based on your numbers above, the COVID mortality rate is actually more than 1.5 times higher than the motor vehicle mortality rate and that rate is for the entire year of 2018, whereas we are only seven months through 2020, the first three months of which saw hardly any COVID deaths in the US (not sure about Florida).

Am I missing something?[/quote]

Right. 1.5x is in the same ballpark.  I would consider 11.18 per 100,000 and 17.5 per 100,000 to be roughly similar.

And we're talking about rates here, not overall numbers, so it doesn't particularly matter that one is for the year while the other is for a few months.  The *rate* isn't likely to change much.  Though, I'll note that they're measuring very different things. The motor vehicle rate is the overall morality rate of car accidents, while the COVID rate is just the morality rate *if you happen to get infected.*

In other words, for children, even if you expect everyone to get COVID, the risk of death appears to be roughly on par with the risk of dying in a car accident.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics