Tabular Lancet Infectious Disease Fatality Comparisons by Age: SARS, Covid-19, Influena.

[NNadir]

All Covid related scientific papers are open sourced. The table here comes from this paper, a comment in Lancet Infectious Diseases: Likelihood of survival of coronavirus disease 2019 (Ruan, Lancet Infectious Diseases, March 31, 2020.)

An excerpt of the text:

Comparisons of case fatality ratios for SARS, COVID-19, and seasonal influenza in different age groups are shown in the figure. Even though the fatality rate is low for younger people, it is very clear that any suggestion of COVID-19 being just like influenza is false: even for those aged 20–29 years, once infected with SARS-CoV-2, the mortality rate is 33 times higher than that from seasonal influenza. For people aged 60 years and older, the chance of survival following SARS-CoV-2 infection is approximately 95% in the absence of comorbid conditions. However, the chance of survival will be considerably decreased if the patient has underlying health conditions, and continues to decrease with age beyond 60 years.5, 6

I added the bold.

The table:



The caption:

FigureComparison of case fatality ratios for SARS,1, 8 COVID-19,7 and seasonal influenza9

FYI

[Liberty Belle]

1. Great info. Also young people who recover are being left with lung damage in many cases,

as are people of all ages who survive COVID-19.

[Warpy]

2. Only in the case of severe disease

but young people are far likelier to survive a week or so on a ventilator. Whether or not they suffer lifelong pulmonary problems remains to be seen There was some healing in hantavirus, so people who survived the heroics were intially pulmonary cripples but healed to the extent they could do moderate activity. Marathons and squash were out.

That is another unknown with this disease, what effects people will be left with long term after surviving the heroics.

[Igel]

3. Much better presentation than the first time I saw it posted here.

Then the percentages were described as probability of surviving.

Info that I'd think really important is the empirical base for this, since it varies so much by time and place.

The study findings give an estimate of the overall case fatality ratio in China of 1·38% (95% CrI 1·23–1·53), which becomes higher as age increases (figure).