A friend from worked died today. Hospitalized 6 weeks ago with covid. Pneumonia, coma, trach...Now gone. He turned 60 today. Huge anti masker, anti vaxxer, no social distancing, etc. Wonder if he'd do anything different during the last year?
In Canada, 5.5% of COVID deaths were among people under 60 [94.5% have been aged 60+]. Of that 5.5%, 3.6% were among people aged 50-59.
That means that around 1 in 28 deaths from [or more accurately, WITH] Covid-19 is a person between 50-59. As he was closer to 60, that number goes up slightly.
If I was in that age group, I would *consider* getting the vaccine...but even then, probably not.
It's sort of on the cusp.
Among the 600K or so Americans who have died of Covid-19, 94% of them had 2-3 comorbidities, on average.
That means that only 36,000 healthy Americans with no underlying conditions have died of Covid-19. That's just south of 1 in 10,000.
Even among those healthy 36,000 people, the average age was 84.
In fact, if your coworker was healthy and had no other health conditions, I'd hazard a guess that you are actually lying here, Abraham.
If you're not, please accept my apologies. But if your coworker was healthy, his death was a complete anomaly.
If your friend was overweight or obese, or had other health conditions, he should have taken C19 more seriously. So his death really depends on all of that information.
PS - I don't mean to call you a liar...but I do need to emphasize how unlikely it is for a 59-year-old healthy man to die of C19 based on all available current data. But you didn't mention his health status, so I don't want to make that claim. I just want to say that it is unlikely.
