Initial Covid-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater than originally reported

Re:Initial Covid-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater t... by mcv on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @06:53AM (#23626444)

There's different ways of looking at statistics. Most statistics are about the death rates for infected cases per age group, which doesn't account for situations where elderly people are kept from coming into contact with the virus in the first place.

Unfortunately, I'm unable to find good global statistics on absolute number of deaths broken down per age group.

I have come across the claim I mentioned in response to a claim that young people almost never die from this. That is simply not true: young people do die, but it looks like half is indeed an exaggeration. Even so, the claim that it's in the double digits is also false; in the US, 610 people under 44 have died[0]. Claims that young people are perfectly safe are dangerous, even if the danger is a lot higher for older people.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...

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Re:Initial Covid-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater t... by s1artibartfast on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @11:23AM (#23628933)

610 out of ~200 million is almost never in my book. For comparison, the average annual fatalities from lightning in the us is 43.

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Re:Initial Covid-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater t... by ulfw on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:09PM (#23631637)

610 people under 44 is terrible.

But you do realise over 120 THOUSAND died in the US in total. 610 out of 120,000+ is a mere half percent.

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