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Since the hospitalization and mortality rates vary so much with age, it would be surprising if the rate of asymptomatic cases didn't. Since prisons skew young w

Since the hospitalization and mortality rates vary so much with age, it would be surprising if the rate of asymptomatic cases didn't. Since prisons skew young we would expect a much higher proportion of asymptomatics to be found there than in the general population.

throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
If you are going to say they skew young (or make any claim), please provide some figures. I did a search, from https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_age.jsp https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_age.j... <18 Under 18 6 0.0% 18 Ages 18-21 1,866 1.1% 22 Ages 22-25 8,366 4.9% 26 Ages 26-30 21,931 12.8% 31 Ages 31-35 28,182 16.4% 36 Ages 36-40 31,206 18.2% 41 Ages 41-45 26,545 15.5% 46 Ages 46-50 19,979 11.6% 51 Ages 51-55 13,749 8.0% 56 Ages 56-60 9,475 5.5% 61 Ages 61-65 5,467 3.2% >65 Over 65 4,746 2.8% Whether this backs you up or not depends on what 'young' is.
- retrac 6y ago
  That's federal prison data. People who go to federal prison aren't necessarily the same cross-section of the population who go to state prison. Anyway, those numbers are certainly much younger than the median age in the USA nationally, which is 39 years with over 65s being 15% of the population.
- klmadfejno 6y ago
  Skew isn't the right word. But relative to average this is definitely younger. https://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/age_structure.html https://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/age_structure.html Local demographics will vary wildly but it looks like the baseline would be 16% 65 and older, 13% in the range of 55-64. Since we're talking about prisons we should probably ignore the population under 18, so the normalized expected population over 65 is closer to 20%.

throwaway_pdp09 6y ago

If you are going to say they skew young (or make any claim), please provide some figures. I did a search, from https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_age.jsp https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_age.j... <18 Under 18 6 0.0% 18 Ages 18-21 1,866 1.1% 22 Ages 22-25 8,366 4.9% 26 Ages 26-30 21,931 12.8% 31 Ages 31-35 28,182 16.4% 36 Ages 36-40 31,206 18.2% 41 Ages 41-45 26,545 15.5% 46 Ages 46-50 19,979 11.6% 51 Ages 51-55 13,749 8.0% 56 Ages 56-60 9,475 5.5% 61 Ages 61-65 5,467 3.2% >65 Over 65 4,746 2.8% Whether this backs you up or not depends on what 'young' is.

retrac 6y ago
That's federal prison data. People who go to federal prison aren't necessarily the same cross-section of the population who go to state prison. Anyway, those numbers are certainly much younger than the median age in the USA nationally, which is 39 years with over 65s being 15% of the population.
klmadfejno 6y ago
Skew isn't the right word. But relative to average this is definitely younger. https://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/age_structure.html https://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/age_structure.html Local demographics will vary wildly but it looks like the baseline would be 16% 65 and older, 13% in the range of 55-64. Since we're talking about prisons we should probably ignore the population under 18, so the normalized expected population over 65 is closer to 20%.