Patients in this article refer to positive tests and no hospitalizations. The article also mentions that they are currently not showing symptoms or only mild symptoms. This is expected based on our understanding of the disease. Media editorializing the headlines to be misleading to the general public is also expected based on the past few months.
I agree. I think it would be a more factually accurate title if it said something like "Dramatic decline in average age of COVID-bearers" or something like that.
Possibly the correct headline is something more like "Florida has nearly enough tests now".
The average age of a COVID patient should be roughly the same as the average age of the population. If it isn't that suggests, on the face of it, biased testing.
Since the beginning, Florida has been acting to protect the most vulnerable to serious complications. And it's working.
It is widely understood that young healthy people are very low risk so those same young healthy people are using that information to get back to life with very little risk.
What I find interesting is that many are asymptomatic. If this is true, and means that the disease does not cause meaningful harm, should we be worried? Is this going to be in reality more like a 24 hour bug?
I think at this point it's generally accepted that - for the most part - there is a radically different response from younger healthy people versus immunocompromised people.
That's not 100% true, but close. For many people it's true that this would be effectively a bad cold. But two things: 1) they will infect others, and 2) there are a lot of outstanding questions about long term effects of short term disease.
Asymptomatic yes, but still spreading the virus. The fact that some are asymptomatic only worsens the case of COVID-19 because they will not know to stay home.
Those that get sick, which could be your parents, seems to become very sick and in demand of prolonged care. There are clear indications that brain injuries is part of that picture. Without health insurance, you are in really big trouble, and possibly stripped of the after care with possibly long term effects.
In what way is it “good” that you have a large population of silent spreaders? You should be very worried.
For young people going through the disease asymptotically and having anti-bodies is like winning the lottery: they can socialize freely and stop worrying about infecting their family with the virus.
So unless the age of hospitalization goes down, it's a good sign.
