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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
I love you like kin, but "those exist in greater percentages among the old" means age does matter.
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Not really. Assume people over 70 had the same amount of relevant pre-existing conditions as people under 60. They would then be equally vulnerable and have the same infection and death rates. Accordingly, all that "matters" are the pre-existing conditions, and the only relevant question to anyone of any age would be "do you have heart disease, etc.?" Age may make that more likely, but is ultimately irrelevant to the likelihood of severity of the disease, once the answer to that question is known.
