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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Celerity
(54,639 posts)in both the US and here in Sweden FOR THE YOUNGER AGE COHORTS. I toss that out to show you how serious I am when I say you, at 80 years old, are at MASSIVE risk.
My wife and I both are born in 1996, we just found out (via the brand new Roche antibody test that is 100% accurate if it shows antibodies) are antibody positive, so we were exposed despite being some of the very, very few people our age here that we know who self quarantined. We were (we have broken self-isolation now) very careful for almost 3 months, and still caught it (we had zero symptoms, no negative impact at all, we had no clue we even had caught the virus.)
That said,
80 years old and up people are at extremely significant chance of death should you catch it.
80 years of age and up people have accounted for around two thirds (the actual number is a tad over 65%) of all the deaths here in Sweden,
Almost 99% of all deaths in Sweden have been 50 year olds and up, 95% of the COVID-19 deaths here are over 60yo, 88% have been over 70 years of age.
In the US, 99.2% of all US CDC documented COVID deaths have come from the 35 years of age and over cohort
97.3% of all US CDC documented COVID deaths have come from the 45 years of age and over cohort
92.2% from the 55 years of age and over cohort.
Almost 60% of US COVID-19 deaths have come from the 75yo and up age cohorts.
I would NOT risk that dice roll if I were you.
I hope this helps.
STAY SAFE!!