Posted on 04/02/2020 6:46:30 PM PDT by daniel1212
That depends on many factors.
The Guardian (March 21) and some other news media stated that about 80% of people who get Covid-19 experience a mild case [WHO said the same] – about as serious as a regular cold – and recover without needing any special treatment.[1]
Also, the amount of the coronavirus that you first take in may play a factor in the severity of your symptoms (other aspects being equal).[2]
CDC (March 18): among patients with COVID-19 in the United States the estimated fatality rate among persons aged 19 years and younger was 0%; 1% among persons aged 20–54 years; 1% to 3% among persons aged 55-64 years, and ranging from 10% to 27% among persons aged 85 and up.[3] 80 percent of US coronavirus deaths are people 65 and older.[4]
Live Science reported (March 30) that,
a recent study of COVID-19 cases in the United States estimated a mortality rate of 10% to 27% for those ages 85 and over, 3% to 11% for those ages 65 to 84, 1% to 3% for those ages 55 to 64 and less than 1% for those ages 20 to 54. South Korea, which conducted more than 140,000 tests for COVID-19, officials found a overall fatality rate of 0.6%[5]
As of March 23 Italy and South Korea had reported no fatalities for the 10 to 19 years old age group. China reported that 0.2 percent of cases for these young people end in death[6].
Another study of COVID-19 cases in Wuhan, China, estimates that the death rate among people who were infected and developed symptoms was 1.4 percent. The study, reported yesterday in Nature Medicine, suggests that the overall CFR—including people who are infected but do not develop symptoms—will prove to be much lower in the United States than many people feared[7] .
The worldwide fatality rate (Feb. 29) for those 80 years old and up was 14.8%, almost twice that of those 70-79 years old (8.0%) and which itself is over twice as much as those aged 60-69 years old (3.6%), which rate is over twice as much as those aged 50-59 years old (1.3%) while for those aged 40-49 years old it is 0.4%, and 0.2% for those aged 10-39 years old.
As regards health conditions, those must vulnerable are those with Cardiovascular disease, then Diabetes, and after that Diabetes, Hypertension, then Cancer.[8]
Relevant to that, more than 99% of Italy's coronavirus fatalities were people who suffered from previous medical conditions.[9] Also, three out of four young NYC Coronavirus fatalities had other medical conditions (Mar. 27).[8]
More on worldwide demographic and health condition fatality rates: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/
Therefore the COVID-19 coronavirus is especially dangerous to the aged and those with certain per-existing conditions, these being the most vulnerable.
However, since you use the word “dangerous” in regards to life then we should consider other dangers to the same. In regard to that, being in the womb means one is very vulnerable as it places one in danger death, especially since America murders over 2,000 of those souls a day[11].
And if we should consider a comparative perspective, the US death toll from Covid-19 after 2 months (Feb-March) is 5,000[12] (4–1), which is less than the average yearly fatality rate from motor vehicle accidents (over 90 people deaths per day,[13] 39,404 people in 2018 - though many are omitted) which figures to be a 12.04 death rate per 100,000 population[14]).
And out of 169,936 preventable deaths in 2017, an estimated 125,300 preventable injury-related deaths were in homes and communities, which constitutes about 75% of all preventable injury-related deaths[15].
In addition, obesity and being overweight are together the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States[16].
Meanwhile, though we are to seek to prevent deaths, what is most important is who and what we live for, and where we will spend eternity. May all repent and believe.
Hope this helps. Peace by Jesus
Footnotes
Stopped reading when Chinese data was used. I smell Panda.
Only twice as I recall, but the hysteria-promoting media invokes it much, and it is not all false, so why not show them some that is contrary to their typical misrepresentation?
We are closing down the country for around a 1% or less chance of dying?
I don’t even go past “blogspot” in a web address.
A free blog. Must be official.
Yeah, but living is hard.
Sir, this is a nice run down of death riskz
Thank you.
Do we know how much the death rate for Auto accidents and the other than CV virii have dropped as a result of our current efforts to slow the spread of CV?
COVID-19 isjust a cold that turns everyone into a frightened pussy.
LOL. Wish there was a like button.
We are closing down the country for around a 1% or less chance of dying?
Yea isn’t that something? I’ve never heard or seen this before..
More talk on FNC tonight about hospitals not at the model predicted capacity levels. Deaths also trailing.
My poor mom, who has virtually jailed herself, just told me that some lady sat on a church pew inhabited by an infected woman 3 days before and “caught it”.
I find this hard to believe, unless she was licking the seat.
No idea who told her this wild tale.
We communicate either on the phone or with me standing outside on the sidewalk, in the infernal cold, when I drop off her supplies.
It’s an election year, silly.
TDS [unlike the Red Death] holds sway over all.
Josey Wales, is that you?
Or less when the estimated, vs. tested, cases are includes. Also,
As of March 16, the CDC reports that 12 percent of known Covid-19 cases in the US have resulted in hospitalizations, and 20 percent of those hospitalizations were among those ages 20 to 44. - [16 ]
The “projected” Maryland statistics really need to step up their game, as well.
Supposed to be dozens dropping every day, right now...and they’re not.
Seriously that blith dismissal is worse than whatever you think this address means, for regardless of the address, it is the quality and degree of substantiation that matters, and which (unlike blog pimps) is all includes here by me. I could have posted 15 articles for each point from the sources carefully listed, and it is with them that you must take issue with. Which you can.
No figure but that it has dropped I am sure, and which, along with the draconian response that did it, Climate Change alarmists will use to advocate for a permanent draconian response which includes using vehicles only for essential travel.
Not dangerous at all for snake handlers.
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