[DoodleBob]

Per this website:

-1% of the 5,083 COVID19 fatalities but 11% of hospitalization and 36% of the cases and were from people under 40.

-78% of fatalities but 40% of hospitalizations and 13% of cases were from people 70+ years old.

[suijuris]

It would be good to compare this years COVID hospitalizations to other other maladies in the non-COVID years but such data is not available. Also, the reported top common causes of death in Ohio are three years behind.

As far as the 78% of fatalities but only 40% of hospitalizations for those over age 70, how many died in a nursing home or hospice instead of a hospital? What matters is total deaths and total hospitalizations and comparison back several years. For example, what is the Flu death/flu related death rate this season?