The death rate, for those under 50, for this seems to be relatively low.... once you get over 60 it shoots up, and over 70 and 80 you are you looking at 20% or higher mortality rate.... .
No that doesn’t mean you can’t be perfectly healthy 20 year old and not wind up dead... it just means the odds of you dying from it statistically very low.
What I would like to see is how many younger cases are “CRITICAL”, because even if you survive, if you are on a ventilator for weeks, I don’t care what age you are, that’s some serious long term damage.... Doesn’t mean younger folks won’t eventually get better... but even if you survive, after being on a ventilator for weeks you are going to have long road ahead of you.
From what I have read, and I am no way pretending to be an expert, but it appears if you wind up on an ventilator, your odds of survival are in the 15%-20% range or so if my memory serves, if that... So if you reach the point you are put on a ventilator, odds are NOT in your favor that you are going to survive at that point.
Sad, but apparent reality of this, at this point.
I personally believe a LOT more people have had that, than any of the numbers are currently showing... This bug’s been here “officially” since January, but probably before that, and no testing of any serious numbers happened until march... so lots of folks had this, got told they had the flu, and life went on for the majority of them.
From what I am reading, being on a ventilator means essentially game over. One study said that 31 out of 32 patients on a ventilator due to the virus died. Some patients were on the ventilator for weeks.
In Washington State, about 93% who die from it are 60+ years old.