Study examines infection fatality rates for COVID-19

[Zeno Swijtink]

"The odds that an infection becomes fatal is only 1:10,000 at age 25, whereas those odds are roughly 1:100 at age 60, 1:40 at age 70, and 1:10 at age 80."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/01/210121131806.htm


Source: Andrew T. Levin, William P. Hanage, Nana Owusu-Boaitey, Kensington B. Cochran, Seamus P. Walsh, Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz. Assessing the age specificity of infection fatality rates for COVID-19: systematic review, meta-analysis, and public policy implications. European Journal of Epidemiology, 2020; 35 (12): 1123

DOI: 10.1007/s10654-020-00698-1

Open Access
Published: 08 December 2020

[Lilith Rogers]

Oh, thanks for these figures. I've been wondering about who was dying from Covid--I thought it was us elders--I'm 75 soon--but hadn't seen the figures. I'm sorry for us old folks but glad the younger ones among us are much more likely to recover--hopefully too without long lasting side effects which of course we won't find out about for many years. Lilith