Who is getting sick, and how sick? A breakdown of coronavirus risk by demographic factors

[Shiloh]

Source: https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/03/...aphic-factors/

Who is getting sick, and how sick? A breakdown of coronavirus risk by demographic factors
By Sharon Begley @sxbegle
March 3, 2020

The new coronavirus is not an equal-opportunity killer: Being elderly and having other illnesses, for instance, greatly increases the risk of dying from the disease the virus causes, Covid-19. It’s also possible being male could put you at increased risk.

For both medical and public health reasons, researchers want to figure out who’s most at risk of being infected and who’s most at risk of developing severe or even lethal illness. With that kind of information, clinicians would know whom to treat more aggressively, government officials would have a better idea of steps to take, and everyone would know whether they need to take special, additional precautions.

Here’s what research has shown three months into the outbreak...

[Laidback Al]

From the article

The difference is fatality rates, however, is real: 1.7% for women and 2.8% for men, China CDC reported.

So far, in the United States more females are dying than males. https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/...419#post835419

[Shiloh]

Could be that women outlive men in general so there'd be more of to get infected in nursing homes.

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Even in this day in age, women care for the sick more often than men. Therefore they are more likely to get infected with a higher number of virion particles which ultimately leads to higher viral load and more likely to overwhelm the immune system. Just my theory.

[Laidback Al]

Blacknail's comment and Shiloh's observations about the deaths in the nursing home in Washington remind us that we don't know yet how the deaths from this outbreak will be distributed across the population of the United States. One things is certain, we can certainly expect more.