If you spend a little bit of time on Twitter or Facebook pages discussing the coronavirus outbreak, you are soon greeted with the argument that the case fatality rate for those under 50 is extremely low compared with the headline number from the WHO of 3.4 per cent.
But this is an extremely narrow-minded viewpoint of the health system.
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