And Texas Caves In
The last bastion of sanity has jumped on the "stay at home" bandwagon. They just sent me an email that they have closed all state parks to save the 1% who may die from the dreaded super virus. Texas...
Forum Discussion
JRscooby wrote:
First, I do not think the average age of death from this in us is 79, but I can't back that up. I know we are loosing a lot Drs and nurses.
The age data is in table 2 on the CDC site here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm
Over half of the deaths are over 75 so the average is at least that high and probably easily at least 76-77. It’s not possible to determine if it’s 79 since the data is listed in wide age groups without average ages for each. A graph would help to estimate an average.
The CDC also says 27 known health care personnel deaths:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6915e6.htm?s_cid=mm6915e6_x
