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		mikem170 on March 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vaccines should end the pandemic, despite the vari... I used the population of that age group as the denominator. The numbers of infected by age group are not as easy to find, and perhaps not so accurate (confirmed vs non-confirmed, etc). I've approached this numerically since numbers started coming out of NYC last spring. It's just the way I've been comfortable estimating/qualifying the risk.

maxerickson on March 14, 2021 [–]

1/2 the population is almost certainly closer than all of it.

mikem170 on March 14, 2021 | [–]

I think that I see what you mean, and that sounds fair to me. Basically that the disease may have only moved through half that population so far, if I follow your logic.

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