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you could also say that for people 80 and above, this epidemic will more than double their already significant chances of dying this year...


My parents are in the range

And they live in Italy

Still the heat wave in 2003 killed 18 thousands people in a month and 15k in France in only half a month.

Old people are vulnerable to many things, unfortunately


That's a really hard thing to say this early. For all we know many 80+ people are asymptomatic and most older people aren't negatively affected at all by covid 19. It seems really dangerous to conflate actual mortality rate with mortality rate among the confirmed cases. Those numbers will be drastically different with diseases that have many asymptomatic carriers.


https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...

80+ age category has a 21.9% death rate in confirmed cases.


Of those in that group what % had a pre-existing condition? That is, is it age or age + illness? My sense is it's the latter.


I don't have the numbers ready, but my guesstimate is that about 100% had the pre-existing condition of old age.




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