jeffcliff, 5 months ago

Quite a bit different from the flu.

top causes of death at 40

Cause of death Mortality rate/100,000
Cancer 179.94
Heart disease 82.33
Accidents, including drug deaths 56.50
COVID-19 305,626.51 edit this number is clearly broken, but its position suggests it should be between 30 and 56ish
Suicide 30.83
Liver disease 23.44
Diabetes 13.54
Stroke 13.25
Chronic respiratory disease 9.13
Birth complications, genetic birth defects 4.27
Homicide 2.37
Alzheimer's 0.46

note: the flu is not in the top 10, covid is. Also, like 8 of the other top 10 are partially caused by covid so their rates are inflated.

here's the 1-in-n data for the flu.

Age Hospitalized ICU Dies
0-4 1,500 8,300 167,000
05-19 6,800 29,000 150,000
20-44 8,100 53,000 190,000
45-64 3,300 14,000 77,000
65+ 700 7,700 8,100

ie your chance of being hospitaized from the flu at 65+ is roughly equal to being hospitalized from covid around 5 years of age (unjabbed) or 18 years of age (jabbed)

your chance of being in the ICU from the flu at age 65 is roughly equal to the risk of being in the ICU from covid at age 5(unjabbed) or age 30(jabbed)

death same sorta thing

here's the weekly hospitalizations : other than 0-39s all age groups are higher than the flu hospitalizations at >65