Only one person I know has been in the hospital. He's still battling, 9 months later. Permanent lung damage.
(4 co-morbs)
I still do not know anyone who has passed from this.
Yeah with 1 in 700, and not accounting for age distribution, then it's possible I'd personally "know" maybe 1 person. I have something like 350 Facebook friends (though I only regularly interact with perhaps 100 of them). 'Then there's work colleagues, so maybe another 60 or 70 that I can claim to personally know. Old family friends and relatives and even parents of my friends that aren't on Facebook, maybe another 50 or 60 of them. Favorite bartenders and restaurant workers that I'd count as people I know, another 20. That all adds up to 500 people I would say that I "know." And as far as i know, not one of them have been killed or hospitalized by COVID.
To get up to 5 people I knew that were killed by COVID, again just using averages and avoiding digging into age distribution, I'd have to know 3500 people. I don't know 3500 people. To get to 10, I'd have to know 7,000 people. I definitely don't know 7,000 people.
So again, I wouldn't be all that surprised to find out there was
one person I knew, who had died. But anything more than that would be pretty surprising, and there are some people on this message board or others I frequent, that say they've lost up to 10 people.
That's really crazy and doesn't follow using averages. Obviously age will have something to do with it, but I'm almost 50 and know a lot of people that are older.