There are now five decent, reliable estimates of age-specific IFR and they are all very similar This is looking more and more solidhttps://twitter.com/stats_q/status/1290330193400299520 …
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The exponential increase is pretty substantial, and worth noting Every 10 years adds an order of magnitude of risk This means even relatively young people (50s) are in quite a bit of danger
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For reference, the risk of death from going skydiving is very roughly 1 in 100,000 That means that, for the avg 50 year old, COVID-19 is as risky as going skydiving every day for a year and a half
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Not sure actually, haven't looked into it. If it follows the same pattern as CFR (which it probably will), about 20-50% increased risk for men
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