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A back of the envelope calculation would say colon cancer poses a higher risk to you than the coronavirus.

The Infection Survival Rate of COVID19 for those 20-49 is 99.98%, according to the CDC:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...

0-19 years: 99.997%

20-49 years: 99.98%

50-69 years: 99.5%

70+ years: 94.6%

This gives a death rate of 20 out of 100,000 people for the 20-49 age group who get COVID19. And there is no guarantee you will contract COVID19.

I don't know what proportion of people with your symptoms have colon cancer, but I assume it's unfortunately much larger than 20 out of 100,000. The survival rate for colon cancer is highly dependent on how early it is diagnosed.



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