Covid-19 deaths is worse among young than old

[DrZoidberg]

Here's an interesting article published by the Jama Network.

They looked at excess deaths. That is comparing mortality rates from a normal year with 2020.

Conclusion: While old people die more from Covid-19, they would have died anyway of something. The young people killed by Covid-19 would likely not have died from anything in the same period.


https://jamanetwork.com/journals/ja...emic was,several corresponding months of 2018.

 

[barbos]

Here's an interesting article published by the Jama Network.

They looked at excess deaths. That is comparing mortality rates from a normal year with 2020.

Conclusion: While old people die more from Covid-19, they would have died anyway of something. The young people killed by Covid-19 would likely not have died from anything in the same period.


https://jamanetwork.com/journals/ja...emic was,several corresponding months of 2018.

Not worse, relatively worse. And "relatively" to the rest of causes of deaths.

 

[DrZoidberg]

Here's an interesting article published by the Jama Network.

They looked at excess deaths. That is comparing mortality rates from a normal year with 2020.

Conclusion: While old people die more from Covid-19, they would have died anyway of something. The young people killed by Covid-19 would likely not have died from anything in the same period.


https://jamanetwork.com/journals/ja...emic was,several corresponding months of 2018.

Not worse, relatively worse. And "relatively" to the rest of causes of deaths.

What?