Well, I'd highlight that over 200,000 people aged 18-64 were permanently removed from the eligible workforce in the US since March 2020.
yeah, I feel like this is kind of misleading. Shouldn't be lumping 18 year olds with 64 year olds. This disease is one where your risks of death grow significantly with age, obesity, and other underlying health conditions.
There have been about
5,000 COVID deaths people aged 18-29. About 15,000 deaths ages 30-39. And 37,000 deaths ages 40-49.
For some stupid reason they lump 50-64 year olds together in the official statistics- but it's 162,000+ deaths. Would be interested to see say 50-59 year olds vs 60-64 year olds. They should've broken those ages out.
But ages 65-74 are around 198,000 deaths (65 is "retirement" age btw), ages 75-84 are 221,000+ deaths, and ages 85+ and up are 223,000+ deaths.
65 and up is around 642,000 deaths of the 880,000 or so - just around 73%.