Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[SvennoJ]

Pyro as Bill said:

SvennoJ said:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103023/coronavirus-cases-distribution-by-age-group-italy/
No one under 30 dying in Italy? Where did you get that from.

So far 1.1% of deaths are in 0-18 year age group, 24.3% in 19 to 50 year age group.

Assuming the 3.4% overall (Still used by the WHO) is correct:
0-18 have a 0.037% risk of death
19-50 have a 0.85% risk of death

Now maybe the over all risk is only 2%, that's still 0.02% for 18 and under according to what we know so far.
Maybe it's 1% over all, that's under a thousand deaths under 18 in the UK, yet still about 33 thousand between 20 and 50 (if the rest that need critical care can actually be saved)

China and Italy are the best statistics we have so far, over 6,000 deaths combined. South Korea only has 93 deaths so far, far too little for a statistical analysis.

The statista link you posted is cases not deaths.

Ah my bad, Google tricked me. That looks promising for those under 50. It's quite a bit behind though. 2978 deaths currently :(

Here are some more overall statistics, but who knows.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/

Would you let your government infect and sequester your children for 2 weeks for the greater good, hoping there will be no long lasting effects, any complications will be treated and the chance of dying is less than one in ten thousand?

Italy's reported cases sadly went up again, thus my theory they had peaked on March 15th has likely gone out the window. 475 more people lost their lives today.