Malaria kills a lot more people >age 5 than I would have guessed (Still more deaths <=5 than >5, but a much smaller ratio than I intuitively believed). See C70-C72 of GiveWell’s cost-effectiveness estimates for AMF, which itself comes from the Global Burden of Disease Study.
I’ve previously cached the thought that malaria primarily kills people who are very young, but this is wrong.
I think the intuition slip here is that malaria is a lot more fatal for young people. However, there are more older people than younger people.
Malaria kills a lot more people >age 5 than I would have guessed (Still more deaths <=5 than >5, but a much smaller ratio than I intuitively believed). See C70-C72 of GiveWell’s cost-effectiveness estimates for AMF, which itself comes from the Global Burden of Disease Study.
I’ve previously cached the thought that malaria primarily kills people who are very young, but this is wrong.
I think the intuition slip here is that malaria is a lot more fatal for young people. However, there are more older people than younger people.