Is COVID no worse than the flu if you are under 70? In this blog post, I investigate various measures of mortality for Americans in their 40s. Not only is COVID much worse than the flu (owing to the lack of a vaccine last year), the increase in mortality for those in "middle age" was very bad.

COVID Deaths and Middle Age

COVID Deaths and Middle Age

We have known for a long time (basically since the start of the pandemic) that COVID primarily affects the elderly. Infection fatality rates are hard to calculate (since not all infections are repo…

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