thatdberight wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 11:27 pm
Everything we've seen so far suggests babies and children are in the lowest risk categories. I haven't seen that explained (and probably wouldn't understand it if it was) but it's a fact. Older people and the sick are at much higher risk, sadly. So let's hope for both medical progress and that the steps taken are successful.
According to latest stats, not a single child under 10, anywhere in the world, has died of this virus.
Up to 50 years old, the worst odds are 1 in 250 cases dying.
50-60, it's 1.3% chance of dying, then 3.6% in the sixties, 8% in the seventies, 14.8% at 80+.
But also, less than 1% of people with no pre-existing condition have died. This isn't split by age, so we don't know if these are all old people or not.
Of course, the incidence of pre-existing conditions is closely related to age anyway, so we don't know if the crucial factor is age, condition, or both. Not from this data anyway.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavir ... ographics/
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