{"id":238376,"date":"2020-03-16T12:14:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T16:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238376"},"modified":"2021-09-26T18:56:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T22:56:49","slug":"how-likely-are-you-yes-you-to-die-from-the-covid-19-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/zh-hant\/how-likely-are-you-yes-you-to-die-from-the-covid-19-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"How likely are you (yes, you) to die from the Covid-19 virus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>\u201cThe death rate for everyone under the age of 49 was below 0.5 percent.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With death rates from Covid-19 varying wildly around the globe, you might be wondering about your chances of survival if you contract the virus. There are no simple answers \u2014 but there are some things that put you at higher risk.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s no surprise that people are confused as to how deadly the virus is, given the differing figures and conflicting information. In early March, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported a global \u2018snapshot\u2019 death rate of 3.4 percent. Yet Italy \u2014 the epicenter of the pandemic in Europe \u2014 has reported a death rate of over 7 percent. Meanwhile, the death rate in Spain is hovering nearer the WHO estimate at 3.1 percent \u2014 and in some countries, it\u2019s much lower than that.<\/p>\n<p>There is much speculation about the reasons for the big variations by country (we\u2019ll get back to that later), but a better way to estimate your chances of recovery is to look at some more personal risk factors.<\/p>\n<p>How old are you?<br \/>\nIt\u2019s commonly known at this stage that the older you are, the worse the stats look. With the pandemic in full swing across the world and figures changing hourly, it makes sense to look at the latest figures from China, which has had the most experience with the virus (and has finally managed to contain it).<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) reported a death rate of 14.8 percent for patients over 80 years old and 8 percent for patients in their 70s. It dropped to 3.6 percent for people in their 60s and 1.3 percent for the 50-59 age group. Fortunately, the death rate for everyone under the age of 49 was below 0.5 percent \u2014 so clearly, age is one of the most major factors to consider.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/483260-covid19-risk-factors-death-rate\/?fbclid=IwAR0P4CVEX2wkbgvIlvNhXNdMo9vS-r1xcRRnaoP55rxZNU1XzEBrZ3cpo1U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/483260-covid19-risk-factors-death-rate\/?fbclid=IwAR0P4CVEX2wkbgvIlvNhXNdMo9vS-r1xcRRnaoP55rxZNU1XzEBrZ3cpo1U<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: \u201cThe death rate for everyone under the  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":337446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}