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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy
And there goes the younger narrative:
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
still the first wave. . .
interesting how links now may or may not show up properly. here is the url without the linking, which was showing up and then disappeared. . . so the bloomberg link inserted the Are you a robot after I saved. . but the link should still work. . .
sportsguy
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There goes the younger narrative? Complete nonsense. The median age of new cases in Florida has been between 32 and 37 for more than two weeks now. The median age of new cases in March, April, May was 55-60. Know why? Because back then they were testing only people with symptoms. 70-80% of covid 19 cases under 60 years old are asymptomatic, so until recently the only people that age who got tested were the ones with some preexisting condition like hypertension etc.
As of today, 86% of all covid 19 cases in Florida have been under 65 years old. 85% of all deaths in Florida have been from cases of people over 65 years old. They are the ones the disease can kill easily.
This epidemic has always been driven by the young and asymptomatic. We are just finding out about them now because of mandatory workplace testing, mandatory testing if you go to ER or hospital, give blood etc etc. One day if we do antibody tests on everyone, we will find that millions and millions more were exposed to covid 19, never got sick or had symptoms.
And of course the surge of young aged cases will infect some older people. They always have. But the uptick in over 65 new cases is small compared to the uptick in younger aged people. Why do you think the median age of new cases dropped 20-25 years?
http://ww11.doh.state.fl.us/comm/_pa...rts_latest.pdf