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"As shown, deaths in young people (from babies to college students) are almost non-existent. The first age group to provide a substantial contribution to the de

by timr 6y ago

"As shown, deaths in young people (from babies to college students) are almost non-existent. The first age group to provide a substantial contribution to the death toll is 45-54 years, who contribute nearly 5% of all coronavirus deaths. More than 80% of deaths occur in people aged 65 and over. That increases to over 92% if the 55-64 age group is included." https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/06/23/coronavirus-covid-deaths-us-age-race-14863 https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/06/23/coronavirus-covid-death... "The estimated IFR is close to zero for younger adults but rises exponentially with age, reaching about 0.3% for ages 50-59, 1.3% for ages 60-69, 4% for ages 70-79, 10% for ages 80-89." https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v3 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v... "Our estimated overall infection fatality ratio for China was 0·66% (0·39–1·33), with an increasing profile with age." https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30243-7/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3... "Among the 0-4 year, 5-17 year, 18-49 year, 50-64 year, and ≥ 65 year age groups, the highest rate of hospitalization was among adults aged ≥ 65 years, followed by adults aged 50-64 years and adults aged 18-49 years." https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidvi... CDC infographic showing clearly that hospitalization and death are both strongly associated with age: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-age.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi... "The paper found that the fatality rate gradually increases with age. For example, there were no deaths among children aged nine or younger while it stood at 0.2 percent for people aged between 10 and 39. It increased to 3.6 percent in the 60-69 age bracket before rising to 8 percent among those aged 70 to 79 and 14.8 percent among people in their 80s or older." https://www.statista.com/chart/20860/coronavirus-fatality-rate-by-age/ https://www.statista.com/chart/20860/coronavirus-fatality-ra... ...and on, and on and on. There is so much data supporting the OP's statement that you have to be trying to ignore it.

hcknwscommenter 6y ago
I see it differently. Yes, young people are much less likely to have a serious illness from COVID. But, there are still young people who will die from COVID (the death rate is not zero for 0-18yrs old even without preexisting conditions). For those young people, it is death. To say, "you young person, you'll be fine". Is inaccurate. To say, you will most likely be fine. Yeah, sure that's accurate, but some of those people will actually die. Let's not candy coat that. Death is permanent and awful.
- timr 6y ago
  "Yes, young people are much less likely to have a serious illness from COVID. But, there are still young people who will die from COVID (the death rate is not zero for 0-18yrs old even without preexisting conditions). For those young people, it is death." You may believe this to be true, but your sense of risk is ridiculously out of proportion to the actual risk involved. In the US, fewer than 300 people under the age of 25 have died from Covid: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm During the same period that those 300 kids died of covid, literally thousands died of all other causes. https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/06/23/coronavirus-covid-deaths-us-age-race-14863 https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/06/23/coronavirus-covid-death... For those young people, of course, death is also death. More young people have died this year from accidents than have died from Covid.
- Jommi 6y ago
  There are still young people that die from driving a car, or getting pneumonia. I'm not sure what you're trying to say here
  - Wasser 6y ago
    If you just sit out a year and be more careful, you just might not die from something we all are aware of? Also isn't also the problem, that people who have light symptoms and are very active are super spreaders?
    - Jommi 6y ago
      Could you rephrase?
alex504 6y ago
It seems like the much more likely and scary scenario for young people (myself included) is long term health problems that are difficult or impossible to treat and basically destroy your quality of life. I was curious if you have done any research on that? I keep hoping to find something to put my mind at ease.
- meddlepal 6y ago
  Agreed, theres way too much focus on death rate for under 40.

by timr 6y ago

hcknwscommenter 6y ago

I see it differently. Yes, young people are much less likely to have a serious illness from COVID. But, there are still young people who will die from COVID (the death rate is not zero for 0-18yrs old even without preexisting conditions). For those young people, it is death. To say, "you young person, you'll be fine". Is inaccurate. To say, you will most likely be fine. Yeah, sure that's accurate, but some of those people will actually die. Let's not candy coat that. Death is permanent and awful.

timr 6y ago
"Yes, young people are much less likely to have a serious illness from COVID. But, there are still young people who will die from COVID (the death rate is not zero for 0-18yrs old even without preexisting conditions). For those young people, it is death." You may believe this to be true, but your sense of risk is ridiculously out of proportion to the actual risk involved. In the US, fewer than 300 people under the age of 25 have died from Covid: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm During the same period that those 300 kids died of covid, literally thousands died of all other causes. https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/06/23/coronavirus-covid-deaths-us-age-race-14863 https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/06/23/coronavirus-covid-death... For those young people, of course, death is also death. More young people have died this year from accidents than have died from Covid.
Jommi 6y ago
There are still young people that die from driving a car, or getting pneumonia. I'm not sure what you're trying to say here
- Wasser 6y ago
  If you just sit out a year and be more careful, you just might not die from something we all are aware of? Also isn't also the problem, that people who have light symptoms and are very active are super spreaders?
  - Jommi 6y ago
    Could you rephrase?

alex504 6y ago

It seems like the much more likely and scary scenario for young people (myself included) is long term health problems that are difficult or impossible to treat and basically destroy your quality of life. I was curious if you have done any research on that? I keep hoping to find something to put my mind at ease.

meddlepal 6y ago
Agreed, theres way too much focus on death rate for under 40.