From CBS62 (Detroit):
LONDON (CBS Local) — In the race to develop a vaccine for the rapidly-spreading coronavirus, scientists in Great Britain are looking for 24 brave volunteers. Hvivo, which owns the Queen Mary BioEnterprises Innovation Centre in east London, is looking for volunteers willing to be injected with the 0C43 and 229E strains of the coronavirus as part of research into the development of a vaccine.*Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths
These strains are far less serious than the COVID-19 strain currently spreading across the world, giving them similar respiratory symptoms.
Volunteers selected for the program will be compensated to the tune of £3,500, or about $4,500, according to the Daily Star and the Daily Mail.
Volunteers will be kept in isolation and on a restricted diet for two weeks with no exercise or physical contact with any other person....MORE
The numbers are getting stale but the general outline remains true. For example last time I saw figures for South Korea and Japan the youngest fatalities were over 30 and 50 respectively.
In Italy the vast majority of deaths have been over 60.
From Worldometer
Last updated: February 29, 4:40 GMT
There are two sources that provide age, sex, and comorbidity statistics:- The Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission published on Feb. 28 by WHO, [2] which is based on 55,924 laboratory confirmed cases. The report notes that "The Joint Mission acknowledges the known challenges and biases of reporting crude CFR early in an epidemic" (see also our discussion on: How to calculate the mortality rate during an outbreak)
- A paper by the Chinese CCDC released on Feb. 17, which is based on 72,314 confirmed, suspected, and asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 in China as of Feb. 11, and was published in the Chinese Journal of Epidemiology [1]
Age of Coronavirus Deaths
COVID-19 Fatality Rate by AGE:
*Death Rate = (number of deaths / number of cases) = probability of dying if infected by the virus (%). This probability differs depending on the age group. The percentages shown below do not have to add up to 100%, as they do NOT represent share of deaths by age group. Rather, it represents, for a person in a given age group, the risk of dying if infected with COVID-19.
AGE
| DEATH RATE confirmed cases | DEATH RATE all cases |
80+ years old
|
21.9%
|
14.8%
|
70-79 years old
|
8.0%
| |
60-69 years old
|
3.6%
| |
50-59 years old
|
1.3%
| |
40-49 years old
|
0.4%
| |
30-39 years old
|
0.2%
| |
20-29 years old
|
0.2%
| |
10-19 years old
|
0.2%
| |
| 0-9 years old |
no fatalities
|
In general, relatively few cases are seen among children.....
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