I know five people in their late 70’s and 80’s that acquired the virus and only one of the five had to go to the hospital and that was for pneumonia for 3 days. She was never in ICU. The rest were sent home to recover with a regimen of medicine. Two have recovered and been released by their doctors, and the others appear to be headed for the same good results. For all five the covid-19 has been like a mild case of the flu.
That’s because, with the exception of people who aren’t very healthy to begin with, COVID IS the flu. COVID is “dangerous” and potentially “deadly” to the same people, for the same reasons, and to the same degree, as the flu.