Originally Posted by
Potsie Weber
In the UK, cases are spiking in younger people who are less likely to be vaccinated. Younger people are much less likely to die from COVID too, so cases are going up, but deaths not so much. There are now more deaths in the UK from vaccinated than non-vaccinated as age is by far the biggest influence on death. A vaccinated 70yr old is at greater risk than an unvaccinated 35yr old.
So should we be vaccinating and introducing risk in young people or just the elderly?
Also for the purposes of Covid risk how would we define “ young people “?