Blahstoise Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 Quote Researchers on Monday announced the most comprehensive estimates to date of elderly people’s elevated risk of serious illness and death from the new coronavirus: Covid-19 kills an estimated 13.4% of patients 80 and older, compared to 1.25% of those in their 50s and 0.3% of those in their 40s. The sharpest divide came at age 70. Although 4% of patients in their 60s died, more than twice that, or 8.6%, of those in their 70s did, Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London and his colleagues estimated in their paper, published in Lancet Infectious Diseases. The new estimates come as scientists have been scrambling to figure out the underlying reasons for older people’s greater susceptibility to the virus — and, in particular, why some mount a stronger immune response than others. https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/30/what-explains-coronavirus-lethality-for-elderly/ Paper from where those stats come from: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30243-7/fulltext 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post beekay414 Posted March 31, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 31, 2020 57 minutes ago, ramssuperbowl99 said: @beekay414 how are you feeling man? Good. I'm clear of it now. Back to work tomorrow. 23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mission27 Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 1 minute ago, Blahstoise said: Important to note the 1.38% overall CFR they estimated may be significantly overstated because: "We also assumed perfect case ascertainment outside of Wuhan in the age group with the most cases relative to their population size (50–59-year-olds); however, if many cases were missed, the case fatality ratio and infection fatality ratio estimates might be lower." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Brown Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 14 minutes ago, beekay414 said: Good. I'm clear of it now. Back to work tomorrow. was thinking of you yesterday myself, glad to hear it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWil23 Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 16 minutes ago, beekay414 said: Good. I'm clear of it now. Back to work tomorrow. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Brown Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 Just called unemployment 507 times in a row for the opportunity to wait on hold for 2 hours. what a time to be alive. i want to move to canada. i already love maple syrup and i can learn to like hockey 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramssuperbowl99 Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 14 minutes ago, beekay414 said: Good. I'm clear of it now. Back to work tomorrow. That's awesome man, glad you're feeling better. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVScout Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 Have you recovered from Coronavirus infection? If so, scientists need your help! http://clinicalstudies.rucares.org/coronavirus.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malagabears Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 5 hours ago, VonKarman said: It's just the influence of Catalonia TBH. Data across the country looks "good". This week is going to be the one with most deaths, and from April 9th onwards (aproximately) active cases will start to drop. I hope so. Andalucia has been pretty stable and tonight it was reported the region has only needed to use 15% of it's total ICU bed capacity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mega Ron Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 43 minutes ago, beekay414 said: Good. I'm clear of it now. Back to work tomorrow. That's uplifting news brother. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BayRaider Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 4 hours ago, acowboys62 said: The media did what now to prevent what? Numbers aside the media has and is continuing to fuel panic in most areas. What should they do, tell people it’s ok and dandy? It’s a lot worse than expected. That is at least agreeable. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BayRaider Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 You guys seen this? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwny Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 A pro-tip for all you folks not getting outside and seeing as much sunshine as you might otherwise, start taking a vitamin D supplement. Take it from someone with a vitamin D deficiency, you really don’t want to be cooped up with low vitamin D levels. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyers0909 Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 1 hour ago, beekay414 said: Good. I'm clear of it now. Back to work tomorrow. @Forge has to be ecstatic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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