Posted on 03/06/2020 5:22:47 AM PST by RummyChick
Men are 65 per cent more likely than women to die from coronavirus, according to statistics.
Figures from the World Health Organization and Chinese scientists have revealed that 1.7 per cent of women who catch the virus will die compared to 2.8 per cent of men, even though neither sex is more likely to catch it.
More than 98,000 people around the world have now been diagnosed with the virus, which causes a disease called COVID-19, and at least 3,383 have died.
Some experts have put the higher risk among men down to higher smoking and drinking rates – both habits weaken the immune system, making people more likely to get ill.
The elderly and infirm have also been found to more at risk of coronavirus, with 10.5 per cent of heart disease patients expected to die if they catch the deadly virus.
Death rates among people with diabetes – of which there are four million in the UK and 34m in the US – are expected to be around 7.3 per cent, while six per cent of patients who have high blood pressure might die if infected.
Some 5.6 per cent of cancer sufferers infected with the coronavirus would be expected to die along with 6.3 per cent of people with long-term lung diseases.
In the US, at least 233 people have now been confirmed to have the coronavirus, and 12 have died from it, while in the UK there has been one death among 116 cases.
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I had seen a chart or graph posted somewhere here which basically said that 70+ risk of death goes up, 80+ even higher.
And how will you feel if Trump gets it???
Rebecca Ballhaus
@rebeccaballhaus
Trump says his trip to CDC today was cancelled because “they thought there was a problem with someone at CDC who had the virus.” But that official tested negative so he may still travel there today, he says.
Good article. I usually don’t read them on this topic, there’s so much muddle.
It offers some specifics as to likely victims according to various factors.
Thanks for posting!
I’m with you - and voting for President Trump will have an extra special aspect as Nov 3 is my (and Jim Rob’s) birthday...
A doctor on Fox this morning said folks are going super-nuts for no reason and the MSM is helping the panic by having a new screamer headline for each and every new case...he said that if you add the coronavirus to the Flu season we’re in the middle of, you still have a relatively mild Flu season..
Coronavirus is the new “Global Warming”
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Coronavirus = Y2K.
It’s a New York and Hollywood thing
So yes it overlaps as Jewish but I don’t remember Israelis doing it
Oh, good, well, I’m still a relative baby at 64.
Give women the same analysis. The ALL systems need such a system; however, you now have some suckers who clean the filtering systems, and off we go.
Ozone generator in a storage shed set up for bulk decontamination. Hold your breath-do not inhale the ozone enriched air.
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