The CDC site updates each week 5 age groups are shown for cumulative # of tests taken and testing positive. The graph can be spliced more granular by states too.
For example, for week #25 ending June 20th in the US these were the raw #'s:
Ages 0-4 1,773 new cases- 164 testing positive
Ages 5-17 7,116 new cases- 778 testing positive Ages 18-49 84,094 new cases-5,921 testing positive (or 56% of the total 10,474 people with a + )
Ages 50-64 35,889 new cases-1,832 testing positive
Ages 65+ 43,482 new cases- 1,760 testing positive
So there was a total of 172,748 who took a test that particular week and 6,863 of the 10,474 who tested positive were under the age of 50. That’s nearly 2/3 (65.5%) !!!
Yet seemingly most of the media fails to highlight all the pertinent information.
Anybody have input on the rationale why it seems many reports do not break out new cases by age group too?
71% of the population are 54 and under. I’m actually surprised that this many 65 and above are still testing positive. That’s the highest risk group.
What’s interesting to me on the CDC data is 32MM tests have been done with 3MM positive results. We only have 2.4MM cases in the US which means 600,000 of the positives were second tests? 9% of those tested come up positive. Interesting to me that we’ve already tested almost 10% of the population. Wonder how many people actually have it or have had it so far. . .
