In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% without symptoms

Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by bshanks on Sunday April 26, 2020 @04:11AM (#22985473)

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.

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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by throwaway_pdp09 on Sunday April 26, 2020 @10:53AM (#22987553)

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.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.

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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by klmadfejno on Sunday April 26, 2020 @11:04AM (#22987637)

Skew isn't the right word. But relative to average this is definitely younger.

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%.

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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by retrac on Sunday April 26, 2020 @11:03AM (#22987627)

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.

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