COVID Mortality by Age

Comments debate COVID-19 fatality rates and risks stratified by age groups, highlighting low mortality for younger people versus high rates for the elderly and those with comorbidities, often citing CDC and Worldometers data.

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e.g II US PD index.htm MUCH scenarios.html twitter.com IFR thecentersquare.com age covid risk death rate mortality fatality dying fatality rate chance

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LarvaFX Aug 31, 2020 View on HN

Not true. Covid 19 is about 10x as likely to kill you even in that age group.See: https://i.insider.com/5ef234caf34d051bc821d0d8?width=1000&fo...

JoeAltmaier Feb 27, 2020 View on HN

No, its probably the 14% death rate among the elderly and lung-compromised.

dr_dshiv Feb 29, 2020 View on HN

Please keep in mind that the 2% rate does not apply to you. Check your own risk here:https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...

FalconSensei Feb 29, 2020 View on HN

Unless you have cardiovascular disease, diabetes, respiratory disease or hypertension... Then the mortality rates can be up to 10% (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...)

defen Oct 18, 2020 View on HN

Make a list of 20 ~40 year olds you know. Are you ok with there being a 2% chance that at least one of them dies of COVID?

newyankee May 30, 2020 View on HN

How old ? Is there any correlation with age ? mortality rate i mean

insickness Sep 25, 2020 View on HN

A large percentage of those people would have died within the next year anyway.Covid Survival Rate:0-19 years - 99.997%20-49 years - 99.98%50-69 years - 99.5%70+ years - 94.6%

ketchupdog Jul 7, 2022 View on HN

Risk of death due to covid is heavily weighted by age.https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi...

2bitencryption Apr 6, 2020 View on HN

> They are likely not considering that even the younger are taking as much as a 1% risk of their lifeI know the numbers are still super fuzzy and it depends on who you ask, but at least according to Wikipedia, the US fatality rate for ages 20-44 is 0.1-0.2%, not near 1% (though certainly at-risk individuals would be higher than the average...)https://en.wikipedia.org&#

timr Oct 6, 2020 View on HN

It's probably about the same up to age 49, maybe a bit less:https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...