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Mortality is around 0.6% Tom Send a noteboard - 14/12/2020 03:19:46 PM

"The researchers found that the age-specific infection fatality rate was extremely low among children and young adults, measuring 0.002% at age 10 and 0.01% at 25. However, the rate progressively increased with age, growing from 0.4% at 55 to around 15% at 85."

Clicking through to the source shows:

"Results Our analysis finds a exponential relationship between age and IFR for COVID-19. The estimated age-specific IFR is very low for children and younger adults (e.g., 0.002% at age 10 and 0.01% at age 25) but increases progressively to 0.4% at age 55, 1.4% at age 65, 4.6% at age 75, and 15% at age 85."

Now, are you trying to tell me that the US population is so skewed to the elderly that you get a 2% mortality rate average when it's below 1.4% for everyone 65 and younger?

Further, on WebMD, as well as on a recent Wall Street Journal article behind a paywall, the average rate when factoring in numbers of people in the various age tranches, comes out to 0.6% fatality.

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200901/what-changing-death-rates-tell-us-about-covid

“It looks like now that the fatality rate of a person who gets infected with this, on average, is around six times that of the seasonal flu -- so around the 0.6 [percent] range,” say Amesh A. Adalja, MD.

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