Another reason why Dallas sucks I guess. My guess honestly is that my area is just in a huge spike. I was able to get a drive up appointment tomorrow at 4 which is still ridiculous, but it’s something. Everything at every CVS etc drive through was booked. Insane.
Look, I know you and I don't see the same politically, but I've been in finance for 24 years. I know numbers. What is your line of work?
Just lost a friend to COVID today. 50 years old, good shape, no underlying issues. He leaves behind a wife and 4 kids. Man, **** 2020.
Yeah. A mutual friend had reached out to him yesterday checking in (didn’t know he was sick) and he texted back saying he had COVID and it was kicking his ass. A few hours later he passed away. Guess he was one of those 1 in 100 or whatever but feel so badly for his family. I’ve had a handful of people lose a parent in their 70’s but not anyone this young.
Thank you, FFB. That is very considerate. Fortunately the family is okay financially in this situation but that is a kick ass gesture and much appreciated.
So I was curious how this new wave was looking relating to age since I made this post. Since Nov 16 there have been 37,546 covid deaths reported to the CDC. I noticed that the age of death is trending higher in this wave. With my very rough estimate calculation I've made it seems like the average age of death has gone from 76.5 years in the Nov 16 post to 78.5 in this new wave. I didn't keep the old data with the males and females, but overall there is a major difference in age of death between the genders. Male average age of death is around 74.7 Female average age of death is around 79.3 This is the current total distribution of deaths by age. This covers 261,530 deaths This covers 37,546 deaths
The hospitalization data from covid-net agrees with what you're seeing with deaths. https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/COVIDNet/COVID19_5.html The proportion of 65+ yr has been gradually increasing since the summer wave in June and July. The 50-64yr group has been staying pretty consistent while the 19-49yr group is decreasing.
Thank you and @robbie380 for posting those numbers. Here's how I read that data: as the viral spread increases, we just can't protect elderly populations as effectively as we once did. Here's some disappointing news from a Korean research project: indoor spread in as little as five minutes of restaurant exposure, from 20 feet away. Let's not exaggerate the result: I think that is still somewhat rare. But the main message of that study is pretty clear: You are not safe, indoors, with random people at six-foot distance. We have to use all the tools if we're interested in slowing the spread: distance, masks, reducing time indoors, reducing our number of contacts, washing hands, etc. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Infected-after-5-minutes-from-20-feet-away-15790474.php
Sorry to read that, mayne. We lost a friend of similar age, with two kids. I keep hearing similar stories. Alert and energetic enough to at least text and email -- then a few hours later, gone.
This has been a horrible year, I’m so sorry for everyone to have this hardship ...sister in law just got it, she is in the medical field but not sure if that was from work. I was planning on driving to Houston from Tennessee to visit my mom in March (thinking it may be safer then) that I haven’t seen in a year but I’m going to cancel that. Not worth the risk - I’ll wait to later in 2021
This is basically what I told my parents, although I just said "sometime next year". I'm not risking it with them. Hopefully this crap dies down a bit during the summer months or slightly prior and the vaccinations are helpful.
