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Originally Posted by nomadking
Utter garbage.
Men in general were more affected than women, where does that come into it. Twice as much, across all groups. Iran was badly affected, including senior government officials. The richer Northern part of Italy was affected more than the poorer South. In the UK hospital consultants not exactly on poverty pay were badly affected. In the UK and the US, Hasidic/Orthodox Jews were badly affected.
The biggest factor was people's behaviour, particularly of still insisting on gathering in large groups.
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I wonder if you even bothered to read the report before trashing it.
I suspect you don’t have evidence to justify discounting it so thoroughly, nor for insisting on your own no doubt exhaustive study of the data. Though having asked I imagine you’re now going to post me a ton of tangentially related links, with minimal interpretive input from your good self.
To the report: it has been recognised from quite an early stage that *mortality* (which what’s at issue here, not mere transmission) is affected by a number of factors. Respiratory health is one such factor, age is another (I suspect that’s a combination of respiratory health plus weaker immune response). However the issue affecting hospital staff, even the young-ish, healthy consultants, is viral load. If you get a big initial dose of virus particles then it multiplies in your body that much faster and your immune system struggles to cope. Viral load is also a major contributor to *mortality* in low income households which are statistically more likely to be living in smaller dwellings, and are more likely to be living in chaotic circumstances where household hygiene is more difficult to maintain.