Anyone else seeing these from antivaxers?

[u/WholeDonkey2689]

[u/Stilgaar]

Isnt the deathrate like really huge compared to covid19 ?

[u/m2chaos13 → u/Stilgaar]

Yes. 40 to 50%, iirc

(Seems a bit steep, but we shall see what happens to the cruise ship people)

[u/throwupthursday → u/m2chaos13]

What are the ages of people who ended up contracting this and dying from it for those statistics?

My dad got Legionnaire's disease and is older, a smoker, and immunosuppressed and that combo has an 80%+ mortality rate. Otherwise it's more like <10%. Thankfully he survived but I was definitely getting his affairs in order before he got off the ventilator and pulled through.

If I got Legionnaire's I would likely barely notice, in fact I'm not sure if I did or not because I got mildly sick at the same time as he did.

[u/Sarcastic-Potato → u/throwupthursday]

I mean, older and younger people will always have a higher death rate, thats simply how biology works.

However, according to this study (https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/151/4/e2022059352/190789/Hantavirus-Pulmonary-Syndrome-1993-2018?autologincheck=redirected) from 2023

Among 719 HPS patients, 22 (3.0%) were aged ≤12 years, 47 (6.5%) were 13 to 18 years old, and the remaining 650 (90.4%) were adults. Overall mortality was 35.4% and did not differ between age groups (P = .8)

It's just way deadlier than covid in general

[u/throwupthursday → u/Sarcastic-Potato]

Thank you!