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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by tinus_hn on Saturday May 23, 2020 @07:01PM (#23287383)
If you are 70 and get Covid-19 you have a 90% chance of recovering. You make it sound like you have a 90% chance of dying which is an extreme exaggeration.
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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by Aeolun on Sunday May 24, 2020 @06:17PM (#23295368)
You are right, for some reason I was under the impression that COVID-19 was much more lethal to older people.

I think because of the early cohort in Japan, of which most 70+ people ended up deceased.

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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by catalogia on Saturday May 23, 2020 @10:32PM (#23288611)
In 2017, a 70 year old American man had a 2.2% chance of dying that year and on average was expected to live another 14 years. I'm curious how the average life expectancy of a 70 year old has changed from that year to this one. Is it down to 13 years yet?
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