CDC analysis shows coronavirus poses serious risk for younger people

The Hill ^ | 03 18 2020 | Reid Wilson

[yesthatjallen]

SNIP

Between 2 percent and 4 percent of people that young are admitted to intensive care units. The fatality rate is low, only 0.1 percent to 0.2 percent, but is about twice as deadly as a bad flu season.

Health outcomes are much worse among those who are older, and those who have underlying symptoms. The early estimates show that a fifth to a third of those between the ages of 45 and 65 who contract the disease are hospitalized. Among those over 75 years old, hospitalization estimates range from 30 percent to more than 70 percent.

Among the oldest cohort, those over the age of 85, somewhere between 10 percent and a quarter of all patients die. The data show adults over the age of 65 account for 80 percent of the deaths associated with the coronavirus.

But younger Americans are contracting the virus at the same rates as those who are older. The initial round of data actually found more people between the ages of 20-44 who landed in the hospital than those over the age of 75 who wound up in treatment, even though mortality rates were lower for the younger set.

SNIP

[txrefugee]

Um-hum....right after the beach party pictures showed up. How dare they?We demand that everyone be alone and scared to death.

[dinodino]

Hopefully this will silence the FluBros here who keep saying it only hits the elderly.

[Paladin2]

Traffic deaths could drop more than FLU and WuHuFlu deaths combined as a function of sheltering in place.

[catnipman]

“A new CDC analysis of more than 2,400 cases of COVID-19 that have occurred in the United States in the last month shows that at least one in seven and perhaps as many as one in five people between the ages of 20 and 44 who contract the virus require hospitalization, a level exponentially higher than hospitalization rates for something like influenza.”

the main problem with this “analysis” is that they have no idea whether tens of thousands have this illness and don’t know it because it’s symptomless or have it and think they just have a cold or something ... until we have a denominator that includes tens or hundreds of thousands of confirmed cases, these kinds of “analyses” are little better than guess work ...

[Antoninus]

We demand that everyone be alone and scared to death.

That's what this is all about. EVERYONE MUST BE SCARED.

[scrabblehack]

Hmm..2400 * 1/5 = 480.
2400 * 1/7 = 343

480 * 0.001 = 0.48; 480 * 0.002 = 0.96
343 * 0.001 = 0.343; 343 * 0.002 = 0.686.

Last I saw, one person under age 50 had died in the USA due to coronavirus. It appears that is still true.

[frog in a pot]

.Last I saw, one person under age 50 had died in the USA due to coronavirus. It appears that is still true.

That indeed could be encouraging depending on how often one looks and the credibility of the source. Do you have a link to info regarding the age of those who have died?

[scrabblehack]

It was on this very site in the past week or so....yes, there are a ton of stories on coronavirus but the graph showed one death in the 50 or under group (it was a bar graph). Dang maybe it was just a link in someone’s post and that’s why I couldn’t find it.

I know you’d like a better answer than that. Maybe someone else can find the story?

[cpdiii]

“the main problem with this “analysis” is that they have no idea whether tens of thousands have this illness and don’t know it because it’s symptomless or have it and think they just have a cold or something ... until we have a denominator that includes tens or hundreds of thousands of confirmed cases, these kinds of “analyses” are little better than guess work ...”

Good post

[familyop]

"1 in 5 people between the ages of 20 and 44 who contract the virus require hospitalization"

Something from the article that was not in the excerpt.

[frog in a pot]

Thank you for your response.