As Covid began spreading through Wuhan, China in early 2020, it became apparent that it was an old person’s disease. While younger folk did come down with it and many got sick enough to die from it, the risk of severe disease and death skyrocketed with age.

Covid is far from the only disease that tends to afflict the elderly far more than the young. Indeed, all the major killers of today such as cancer and cardiovascular disease as well as diseases that ruin quality of life from Alzheimers to mobility disorders overwhelmingly affect those over 65.

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