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originally posted by: face23785
originally posted by: 1947boomer
a reply to: v1rtu0s0
From:
covid19.nih.gov...
This is a great example of how you can make statistics say anything.
Note the 226 line is IF HOSPITALIZED WITH COVID, which is only a small percentage of covid cases. And in children the risk of hospitalization from covid is virtually nil. That graphic provides no comparison at all of the risk of myocarditis between those who get vaccinated and those who don't.
Main outcome measures: Demographic-stratified IHRs and case-hospitalization ratios.
Results: The overall IHR was 2.1% and varied more by age than by race or sex. Infection-hospitalization ratio estimates ranged from 0.4% for those younger than 40 years to 9.2% for those older than 60 years. Hospitalization rates based on case counts overestimated the IHR by a factor of 10, but this overestimation differed by demographic groups, especially age.
Statistics like this also fail to take into account personal differences. The chance of being struck by lightning, for example, includes people who are at a higher risk because of recreational choices or their job. The average person who stays inside when it is storming has pretty much 0 chance of getting struck by lightning.
In 2020 there were 17 direct lightning fatalities, compared with 20 in 2019, according to the National Weather Service. From 2010 to 2019 on average, 26 people died each year from lightning strikes in the United States.
originally posted by: 1947boomer
a reply to: v1rtu0s0
From:
covid19.nih.gov...