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SpokenTruth said:
TallSilhouette said:

That's rather curious. I haven't followed the virus as closely as I probably should. Are older people much more susceptible to catching the virus, not just dying from it?

The infection rate does skew higher by age but not nearly as much as the death rate does.  But the latter is more to do with complications from secondary health factors. But why the infection rate itself skews up with age is still not really well understood. The best explanation so far is that younger people are more exposed to a wider range of other coronaviruses and have thus built up some immunity to the this new strain.

A lot of younger people going under the radar because of having strong immunesystems that will make a good amount of them not even consider having the virus.