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That's a really hard thing to say this early. For all we know many 80+ people are asymptomatic and most older people aren't negatively affected at all by covid
by toolz 7y ago
That's a really hard thing to say this early. For all we know many 80+ people are asymptomatic and most older people aren't negatively affected at all by covid 19. It seems really dangerous to conflate actual mortality rate with mortality rate among the confirmed cases. Those numbers will be drastically different with diseases that have many asymptomatic carriers.
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- brokenmachine 7y agohttps://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se... 80+ age category has a 21.9% death rate in confirmed cases.
- chiefalchemist 7y agoOf those in that group what % had a pre-existing condition? That is, is it age or age + illness? My sense is it's the latter.
- tremon 7y agoI don't have the numbers ready, but my guesstimate is that about 100% had the pre-existing condition of old age.
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