Is COVID Obsolete? June 29, 2022
Posted by geoff in News.trackback
*** Going to the CDC website so you don’t have to. ***
I was reading about the FDA’s recommendation that drug manufacturers retool their vaccines for the Omicron variants of COVID-19 (seems a little late for that). Thought I’d check how deaths are doing to see what the current threat level is.
Turns out it’s imperceptible (chart screencapped from the CDC):

For the week ending June 25, here are the deaths per 100,000 people in each age group:
Age | Deaths per 100,000 People |
---|---|
0-4 | 0.0 |
5-11 | 0.0 |
12-15 | 0.0 |
16-17 | 0.0 |
18-29 | 0.01 |
30-39 | 0.0 |
40-49 | 0.04 |
50-64 | 0.06 |
65-74 | 0.09 |
75+ | 0.23 |
That means that if you were in a group of 10 million people between the ages of 40 and 49, only 4 would die of COVID. So, not terribly concerning.
No more DC cocktail parties for CDC and FDA management.
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