ICYMI - updated study looking at infection-fatality rate of COVID-19 by age, now with me as a co-author! The rate increases exponentially: 4 in 10,000 aged 40 70 in 10,000 aged 60 890 in 10,000 aged 80 3,680 in 10,000 aged 85+https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v3 …
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...then relatively flat thereafter. Many diseases have remarkably flat death rates by age until >65, or for v young children. Other infectious diseases such as rabies, lyssavirus, and Hendra are almost universally fatal regardless of age, while for others impaired immune systems
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Are more important. I actually can't think of a single other infectious disease with this pattern of IFR off the top of my head. Even things like TB are often more about treatment than age
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But that is not true. This is influenza death rates in Sweden from last season. Observe the final line, which is the infection mortality ratio.pic.twitter.com/Z5UtLXBchS
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And I wager that you will find the same relationship for pneumonia, UTI, gastroenteritis, sepsis, etc if you would only bother to look.
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