CNN: 80% of CV-19 deaths are for folks 65/older; 78% of positve cases are for folks 64/younger

[iluvtennis]

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this tells me that the young/middle age folks may be passing CV-19 to their older family members and when older folks get it, it's typically fatal

[uponit7771]

1. Yep, Red Don wants to send kids back to school so they can bring CV19 home & kill their parents ...

... cause 70 kids catching it in less than a week in France wasn't enough.

[tinrobot]

2. Fun fact: 63% of over-65's voted for Trump in 2016

He's literally killing his base.

[0rganism]

6. a fatal mistake

unfortunately, one that will likely kill my mother who is about as far from Trump's base as one can get.

[Celerity]

13. no, Trump took 52 to 53% of the 65+ vote, Clinton got 44 to 45%

It was just on MSNBC (they said 52%) and here are links too

https://www.statista.com/statistics/631231/voter-turnout-of-the-exit-polls-of-the-2016-elections-by-age/





https://edition.cnn.com/election/2016/results/exit-polls





https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/behind-trumps-victory-divisions-by-race-gender-education/

Older voters (ages 65 and older) preferred Trump over Clinton 53%-45%. This is roughly the same advantage for the Republican candidate as in 2012 when older voters backed Romney over Obama 56%-44%.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/newsletter/2020-04-24/trump-losing-senior-voters-essential-politics

[JI7]

3. This is why so many are going out

[crazylikafox]

4. Most of we old folks are still hiding in our homes.

If we try to start venturing out it looks like our numbers will skyrocket and potentially our death toll.

[ismnotwasm]

5. Yup they gonna go kill Nana and Meemaw

And apparently not care about it.

[FarPoint]

7. Death is not the " worst" thing to clinically happen with COVID 19...

Chronic, debilitating illness is a hell of its own... Reports of COVID 19 causing multiple blood clots.. which, cause strokes, loss of limbs, organ damage to say liver, kidneys... chronic pulmonary disease.. .These are condition the 64 and younger face...

[Turbineguy]

8. This and the fact that people of color are heavily impacted

is why republicans aren't too worried about the virus.

Getting rid of old people is good for giving tax cuts. And for them, getting rid of non-whites is always good.

Trump lifted the rocks and they all crawled out.

[Moostache]

9. Exactly right...

Immediately after the numbers started trickling out that showed this disease was not AS SERIOUS a threat to younger, more affluent or white people, the response IMMEDIATELY shifted from accepting the lock down and shelter in place orders to "we HAVE to reopen the economy" nonsense.

I am sickened by it, I loathe the people who are clearly unfazed by it and I am saddened for the future of this country once we have collectively accepted an "age cap" in essence.

Back when Plain was shrieking about "death panels" I knew the GOP was nothing more than a craven bunch of zealots and fakers...but I never figured they would take it THIS far.

They do not care if 2,000,000+ Americans die - especially if approximately 50-60% of the dead are old, poor and black or brown.

Words fail.

[iluvtennis]

11. Indeed. nt

[Igel]

10. No, it's not typically fatal when people that are older get it.

It just takes a few seconds to find numerous places on the web that break down "US covid deaths by demographics and age". Numbers differ slightly between sites depending on the data set that was used--just NY, including other places with NY data, including other countries' data, running the numbers in late March versus late April versus mid-May. But they're all similar.

Older means more dangerous, to be sure, but it doesn't hit 50% for any group that's classed strictly by age.

Even the age ranges given don't capture the actual data. The fatality rate gradually increases from the mid-early 50s, it's not too bad at 60 or 61 but after 65 really takes off--increasing as you pass 70, 75, and 80.

It's likely some <18 year olds pass it on to older people. It's likely some older people pass it on to those < 18.

A few places have run the numbers based on antibody studies, and included those who weren't symptomatic or not serious enough to get tested.

By comparison:
>= 75 are 5.9%
65-74 are 6.5%
45-65 are 22%
20-44 are 36.9%
rest < 20

Note also the approx 2:1 ratio of deaths, men:women.

[iluvtennis]

12. thanks for this breakdown - much appreciated. nt