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Originally Posted by graciegirl
Debating with another person who has no credentials to make sense of this on a public forum without valid actual names is really what we seem to be doing. sigh.
This poster, Graciegirl, ago 80, previous pre-school teacher and card carrying mother and grandmother asks OP this question in a different way.
What percentage of people who are hospitalized for Covid-19 die.
By age.
Thank you.
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The CDC best estimate for Infection Fatality Rate for age 65+ is 1.3% I think this is calculated using both confirmed cases and estimated asymptomatic cases.
The older you are, the death rate goes up. But even more important than age are underlying medical issues. If you are healthy but old you have a much better chance of surviving. If you are unhealthy and old, your odds go way down. Your race also matters. People with underlying medical conditions such as heart disease and diabetes were hospitalized six times as often as otherwise healthy individuals infected with the novel coronavirus during the first four months of the pandemic, and they died 12 times as often, according to a federal health report Monday.
Your odds of dying go up if disease is serious enough to be hospitalized and even more if put on a ventilator. They are not using ventilators as much now because they don't seem to work all that well.
Here is a Wapo article about the CDC report, and the CDC report itself. Lots of info in the CDC report to assess individual risk based on age and health.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/healt...ple-cdc-finds/
Coronavirus Disease 2019 Case Surveillance — United States, January 22–May 30, 2020 | MMWR
From an anonymous unnamed poster who seems to post more scientific info and links to back it up than anyone else and wisely chooses not to reveal identity and personal info on the internet.
