Visualized: the World’s Deadliest Pandemics by Population Impact
CDC Covid-19 Survival Rates as of 10/2020:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-deadliest-pandemics-by-population-impact
Age 70+ — 94.6% Survival
Which means, there is a 5.4% fatality rate if you are over 70!
Probably higher if you are over 80! My wife is 81 and I am 82.
Pandemic Death Toll by % of Population Year of Population Estimate
So, how does that 5.4% death rate for seniors compare to previous pandemics?
Antonine Plague 2.6% 200
Spanish Flu 2.5% 1919
The Third Plague 1.0% 1850
HIV/AIDS 0.7% 1981
The Cuomos, who hate senior citizens, would love it if no senior citizens were vaccinated.
Which is why some of us are driving over a 100 miles each way to get vaccinated!
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-deadliest-pandemics-by-population-impact
Common colds? Seasonal flus? Infections? Injuries from falls? Old age diseases coming to fruition? Organs starting to fail? Heart disease? Old age chronic leukemia?
I just wonder how much more (or less) deadly this virus is than routine deaths of the aged? I mean, older people don't live forever. They get to their 70s, 80s and they start to die from just being old and vulnerable.
I'm in my mid-70s and I see examples of this when I attend my high school reunions. Every reunion, fewer and fewer people have survived.
Certain death is a fact of life.
So are we putting too much emphasis on the danger of dying from the covid than people already experience at advanced ages with co-morbidities?
Are we making this virus more deadly than it really is by coding everybody who dies with the virus as dying from the virus?
I'm just sayin'....