Breitbart reports on a CDC report from the US on mortality rates by age group. If you are struggling to educate elderly relatives or friends and neighbours then do them a favour and give them a copy of this post.
A report released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) last week showed that coronavirus mortality rates in the United States increase dramatically by age group.
The data in the report, “Severe Outcomes Among Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) — United States, February 12–March 16, 2020,” included data from 2,499 new coronavirus cases where the age and hospitalization status of the patient were known, out of 4,266 total new coronavirus cases reported during that time period.
Forty-four of these 2,499 patients died. None of those who died were under the age of 20, nine were adults aged 20 to 64, 20 were adults aged 65 to 84, and 15 were adults aged 85 and older. (Note: 87 Americans died of coronavirus by March 16, Worldometers reported, meaning only slightly more than half of those deaths were included in this CDC study.)
Here is how that broke down as a mortality rate by specific age group when the total number of deaths in the age group is the numerator and the total number of cases in the age group is the denominator:
- 0 percent for those aged 0 to 19 (an age group that accounted for 5 percent of those included in the study, or 123 out of 2,449)
- 0.1 percent for those aged 20 to 44 (an age group that accounted for 29 percent of those included in the study, or 705 out of 2,449)
- 0.5 percent for those aged 45 to 54 (an age group that accounted for 18 percent of those included in the study, or 429 out of 2,449)
- 1.4 percent for those aged 55 to 64 (an age group that accounted for 18 percent of those included in the study, or 429 out of 2,449)
- 2.7 percent of those aged 65 to 74 (an age group that accounted for 16 percent of those included in the study, or 409 out of 2,449)
- 4.3 percent of those aged 75 to 84 (an age group that accounted for 8 percent of those included in the study, or 210 out of 2,449)
- 10.4 percent of those aged 85 and older (an age group that accounted for 6 percent of those included in the study, or 144 out of 2,449)
The CDC study referred to these mortality rates as a lower bound, because they used the total number of cases in each age group as the denominator. It also included data on what it considered an “upper bound” for mortality rates when the denominator referred only to “cases with known information on each outcome.”
Using these “upper bound” denominators, the mortality rates increased in each age group, ranging from 0.2 percent in the 20 to 44 age group all the way up to 27.3 percent in the 85 and older age group.
The numbers are clear; if we don’t follow the rules on Level Four then a lot of people will die unnecessarily. The message is that blunt, and I’m not sure that many understand the implications yet.
There are still plenty of people tootling around in their cars. I saw one neighbour go out three times yesterday in her car. IT. NEEDS. TO. STOP.
If you don’t follow the rules then not only are you a dickhead, but you are likely to see us all in lockdown for weeks longer.
Every man and his dog is dreaming up exceptions as to why they don’t think rules apply to them. They are like the proverbial Audi or Subaru driver who thinks the speed limit doesn’t apply to them because those rules are for other people, and they have a car that can “handle” the higher speeds.
Don’t be a dickhead. Stay at Home.
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