Re:Deaths involving Covid-19 by vaccination status, England
by simonsarris on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @12:59PM
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In healthy individuals? Very small. In the USA, a not very healthy country, only 3,728 of 529,402 deaths occurred under the age of 29. (38.7% of the population, 0.6% of the deaths.) I was expecting it to be much higher just based on obesity and diabetes and other comorbidity rates alone.
The inflection point happens in the 40's or 50's:
People under 40 are 52% of the population and 2% of COVID deaths (11,212)
Which of course means people over 40 are 48% of the population and 98% of COVID deaths (529,402)
These numbers reflect only cases where the CDC knows their age. The stats are here, which has a nice graph showing just how outsized the deaths as people get older: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographics (scroll to "Deaths by Age Group")
Covid is (literally) exponentially worse as you get older. But it's not really an issue for young, healthy people. Alas, not very many people can truly call themselves healthy, which is a concern in its own right.
The inflection point happens in the 40's or 50's:
People under 40 are 52% of the population and 2% of COVID deaths (11,212)
Which of course means people over 40 are 48% of the population and 98% of COVID deaths (529,402)
These numbers reflect only cases where the CDC knows their age. The stats are here, which has a nice graph showing just how outsized the deaths as people get older: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographics (scroll to "Deaths by Age Group")
Covid is (literally) exponentially worse as you get older. But it's not really an issue for young, healthy people. Alas, not very many people can truly call themselves healthy, which is a concern in its own right.