Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents have Covid antibodies

Re:Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents hav... by unishark on Thursday April 23, 2020 @09:29PM (#22963696)

Not sure why you added the lower limit at 15. The two high risk age groups from influenza are 65+ and under 5. If I recall correctly, pediatric flu deaths are the only ones tracked by the CDC (for other age groups they just use statistical estimates).

There is data on comorbities with the flu from prior years. This article says half of deaths had no preexisting medical conditions.

https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/141/4/e201729...

And the deaths among healthy young people from both kinds of viruses is commonly blamed on the cytokine storm:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4711683/

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Re:Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents hav... by mlyle on Friday April 24, 2020 @12:34AM (#22964683)

I picked 15-34 because it corresponds with the data table I cited from the CDC, which lists confirmed deaths from each for the time period. It's already cited and linked, but here's it again: table 2, https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

Note that a few of the deaths are -both- COVID-19 and influenza.

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