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Originally Posted by Pierre
for the vast, vast, vast, majority of the population the virus is no more dangerous.
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That's interesting, where are you getting that from? The ONS figures seem to refute that statement. See section 4 here -
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulat...nd31august2020
At any age, the mortality due to COVID is higher than influenza according to those numbers. Under 65s have a 4x higher risk of dying of COVID than influenza or pneumonia. The risk of course is low so 4x not much still isn't much