That's a big part of the problem...the world is concentrating on the "elderly" when Covid-19 also attacks the following individuals just as deadly...
Who is at risk of more severe disease or outcomes?
The above only list about 30% of those that have worst outcomes. There's a much bigger list but I can't find it but will list below what I can remember off the top of my head about people of any age:
- People of any age with chronic medical conditions including:
- lung disease
- heart disease
- hypertension (high blood pressure)
- diabetes
- kidney disease
- liver disease
- dementia
- stroke
- People of any age who are immunocompromised, including those:
- with an underlying medical condition (e.g., cancer)
- taking medications that lower the immune system (e.g., chemotherapy)
- People living with obesity (BMI of 40 or higher).
Seriously, many people should look up how many people in the world have any of the above underlying medical conditions and how many are not above 40 years old.
- Asthma....
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) ...
- Chronic Bronchitis....
- Emphysema....
- Anemia....
- Cystic Fibrosis/Bronchiectasis....
- Pleural Effusion
The first person I heard in South France that died from Covid-19 was a teenager (soccer player). The first person I heard in South Dakota that died from Covid-19 was a young school teacher. The first person I heard in Chicago that that died from Covid-19 was a 12 year old boy that had sleep apnea.
- That's a lot of people that can be hospitalized or die die from Covid-19. Therefore, when they say any age...that includes young adults and teenagers.
The first teenager to die in Québec, Canada was a teenager (loved to play soccer) named Don Béni Kabangu Nsapu.
Recently, several children in primary school were infected and a few were hospitalized while one was serious enough to be in the ICU. All these kids, did not have any underlying medical condition. The infections were contact traced back to a parent that visited a Karaoke Bar.
Parents were so angry, they threaten the Bar owner because he put money ahead of life and violated the health guidelines via going over capacity. The Mayor had enough of the idiots, shut the Bar down and put tighter restrictions on other businesses not respecting the Covid-19 guidelines including restaurants that had been going over capacity.
My point, about 1/3 of the human population are walking around with an underlying medical condition that do not know they have while thinking they are healthy individuals.
This is why I call Covid-19 a ninja because its looking for more than the elderly to take out...its looking for that other 1/3 of the human population.
Do the math...what's 1/3 of the human population that could be assassinated by Covid-19 ???
Lets look a little closer to the United States with the statistics of deaths in people under 65 years:
- By the way, when I say 1/3 of the human population...I'm talking about at least 3 - 5 underlying medical conditions for each persons.
However, the analysis noted that there's substantial variation in the distribution of coronavirus-related deaths by age group by state, with states in the South and along the Sunbelt reporting higher-than-average percentages of younger adults with the coronavirus dying.
Overall, the District of Columbia and Texas had the highest percentages of coronavirus-related deaths among individuals under the age of 65, at 29% each.
Other states with comparatively high shares of coronavirus-related deaths among individuals under the age of 65 included:
Meanwhile, Idaho and West Virginia each had zero deaths among individuals with the coronavirus who were younger than 65, while Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Oregon, and Rhode Island each had reported fewer than 10% of their total coronavirus-related deaths among individuals under the age of 65.
- New Mexico (27%);
- Arizona (26%);
- Mississippi (26%);
- California (24%);
- Nevada (24%);
- Alabama (23%);
- New York (23%); and
- Tennessee (23%).
Simply, I'm no longer worried about the elderly...they're much more careful now and governments are better prepare in taking care of them. It's everybody else that I worry about that have an underlying medical condition regardless if they know about it or don't know about it.
I'll now mention Italy only because I recently talked to a roommate from college that's now President of one of the top pharmaceutical companies in Italy...he stated on the telephone that 12% of the hospitalized patients of Covid-19 are under 50.
While he was talking, I did a little fact check and came across an article on CNBC...
As I've been stating since Day 1 here @ Elitetrader.com that this is a new disease. What they know today may be different than what they know tomorrow because each country has different genetics and more problems than others in specific underlying medical conditions.
This is one of the reasons why I laugh when people keep bringing Sweden's statistics while they live in another country.
If someone loves Sweden so much...go there and those people will most likely come back to Elitetrader.com to bitch & whine about Sweden's restrictions that I posted in my prior message post @ https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/flu-vs-covid.349161/page-6#post-5225518 (posted because of a specific person that continues posting misinformation / disinformation about Sweden).
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