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There hasn’t been a single COVID fatality of someone under 20 that I know of. In the entire world. There is not a 0.2% fatality rate in the 0-45 demographic. E
by zaroth 7y ago
There hasn’t been a single COVID fatality of someone under 20 that I know of. In the entire world.
There is not a 0.2% fatality rate in the 0-45 demographic. Even 45-55 is probably less than 0.1%.
- yibg 7y agohttps://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se... No fatalities under 10, but 10 - 19 has fatality of 0.2%. 0.2 of the entire 10-19 population is a huge number.
- zaroth 7y agoThat number is not what you think it is. The case fatality rate is the number of deaths divided by the number of known cases (positive tests). What you are looking for is the IFR (infection fatality rate) which is not known, because of the number of infections in the 10-19 population which were asymptomatic or too mild to be tested. It’s extremely telling, for example, that 99.9% of fatalities in Italy as of two days ago were 50+. Surely that is not because no one under 50 was infected, particularly since the younger population is more likely to be congregating at bars and clubs. I’m happy to throw away karma to call out anyone multiplying a naive CFR by a population number every time. It’s totally incorrect to do that.
- yibg 7y agoThe point of my post was to point out that the number of deaths for people under 20 is not zero, that is all. We can debate what the true rate is, but I think we can at least agree it’s >0