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Pfizer vaccine approved
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Re: Pfizer vaccine approved
Couple of developments today:
1, Median age of death in the US: 77. Median age of death during the *pandemic*.... 78. eh?
2, Biden said today that people will be going door to door to make sure people get the vaccine... I see that being a fairly short-lived experiment in Govt control...
1, Median age of death in the US: 77. Median age of death during the *pandemic*.... 78. eh?
2, Biden said today that people will be going door to door to make sure people get the vaccine... I see that being a fairly short-lived experiment in Govt control...
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Re: Pfizer vaccine approved
It's been doe here, in one of the hotspots where vaccine take up was low. No idea whether it was successful or not, but if it was then perhaps that's why it's being done.
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All that means is it affected older people more than younger ones, no surprise there.
An adjustment will follow as there aren't as many old people around now, so next year is likely to be 76.
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It affected the crusties by giving them an extra year of life?
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It's age of death, not life expectancy so it just means more older people died than usual.ZRX61 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 07, 2021 4:13 pmIt affected the crusties by giving them an extra year of life?
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Re: Pfizer vaccine approved
Exactly.
Say you had 100 people. Fifty of them are 30 and fifty of them are 80.
If half the young people (twenty five 30 year olds) and half the old people died (twenty five 80 year olds) died the median age of death would be somewhere between 30 and 80. I can't actually remember how to work it out, I've always hated stats
If half the young people (still twenty five 30 year olds) and ALL the old people died the average age of death would go up wouldn't it? Loads more people have died but the 'average dead person' is older now.
Would you conclude that things have improved for the elderly by looking at that stat?
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Because the majority had the vaccine??
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Eradicated by vaccinations and isolation. Not herd immunity.Clinical descriptions of the disease indicate that smallpox always had a high case-fatality rate until around the end of the 19th century when a more benign form of the disease, which caused a similar rash but a substantially lower mortality rate, emerged in the Western Hemisphere
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Are we really trying to eradicate a coronavirus using the same method that worked on smallpox? We haven't cured the common cold yet.slowsider wrote: ↑Thu Jul 08, 2021 11:19 amEradicated by vaccinations and isolation. Not herd immunity.Clinical descriptions of the disease indicate that smallpox always had a high case-fatality rate until around the end of the 19th century when a more benign form of the disease, which caused a similar rash but a substantially lower mortality rate, emerged in the Western Hemisphere
Or flu.
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We being the human race or the country ?Saga Lout wrote: ↑Thu Jul 08, 2021 12:01 pmAre we really trying to eradicate a coronavirus using the same method that worked on smallpox? We haven't cured the common cold yet.slowsider wrote: ↑Thu Jul 08, 2021 11:19 amEradicated by vaccinations and isolation. Not herd immunity.Clinical descriptions of the disease indicate that smallpox always had a high case-fatality rate until around the end of the 19th century when a more benign form of the disease, which caused a similar rash but a substantially lower mortality rate, emerged in the Western Hemisphere
Or flu.
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The last naturally occurring case of smallpox was reported in 1977. In 1980, the World Health Organization declared that smallpox had been eradicated. Currently, there is no evidence of naturally occurring smallpox transmission anywhere in the world
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AFAIK though there's not a cure - just a vaccine to stop you getting it. if you (somehow) catch it you're still in trouble.
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lol i'm not sure we're doing a lot being fat IT nerds, layabouts and an odd random worker... The odds of us curing anything other than a ham in the next few years is very low.
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But,,, but... but... WE made it to the final of Euro 2020, didn't we?
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