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Originally Posted by TLO
And if not - check out appendix table 1 in that study. Yes I'm a moron, so I appreciate the breakdown.
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That table lists the characteristics of hospitalizations in terms of age - not the percentage of people in each age group who were hospitalized. That alone can't tell you whether you're "more likely" to be hospitalized from COVID or flu since it doesn't show how many hospitalizations there were in the first place.
In an extreme (and made up example), imagine that there were 100 flu hospitalizations and 100 million COVID hospitalizations. The percentage of flu hospitalizations who are under 35 could be 90%, and the percentage of COVID hospitalizations who are under 35 could be 10%, but you're still far, far more likely to have been hospitalized due to COVID in that scenario.
To try and get at what you're looking for, though,
this article says that the 2019-2020 flu season had around 410k hospitalizations, and they apparently consider the season to be about 30 weeks long. That's roughly 14k hospitalizations a week, and among those the table in the article says that around 12.2% of them would be under 35, so somewhere in the ballpark of 1,700 people per week were hospitalized with the flu.
It's REALLY tough to get a comparative stat on COVID hospitalizations, but
this page from the CDC says 98.4 per 100k people is the current rate overall, which works out to around 325k hospitalizations since March 1. That's around 20k per week. And your article says 7.5% of those are under 35, which works out to around 1,500 per week.
So my basic, probably error-filled, back of the napkin calculations says that you're slightly more likely to be hospitalized with the flu than you are with COVID. But as I've said many times in this thread, idiots with calculators on the internet don't have a clue what they're doing with this most of the time, and right now I'm just being an idiot with a calculator on the internet. The answer to your question is "no, the data doesn't show that," and to be safe, that's really the only solid conclusion you should draw from this.