Grim distribution

The table below is from Worldometers, based on a paper by the Chinese CCDC released on February 17 and published in the Chinese Journal of Epidemiology1

I would treat all such statistics with caution, but here they are anyway.

AGE DEATH RATE
80+ years old 14.8%
70-79 years old 8.0%
60-69 years old 3.6%
50-59 years old 1.3%
40-49 years old 0.4%
30-39 years old 0.2%
20-29 years old 0.2%
10-19 years old 0.2%
0-9 years old 0.0%

Death Rate is number of deaths divided by number of known cases of Coronavirus, but we still don’t know the ratio of known to unknown cases.

  1. The Epidemiological Characteristics of an Outbreak of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Diseases (COVID-19) – China CCDC, February 17 2020