>>13690171>harmless"[The estimated age-specific IFR] increases progressively to 0.4% at age 55, 1.4% at age 65, 4.6% at age 75, and 15% at age 85."
>https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v7If some kind of product, be it food or a medicine, killed elderly people at a rate of 5-15% would you call it 'harmless'? Do you think influenza, which has a lower IFR, is 'harmless'? If you knew you had COVID, would you then go meet your elderly relative, based on the probability that you only had a 5-15% chance of killing them?
