"France has been heavily affected by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and went into lockdown on 17 March 2020. Using models applied to hospital and death data, we estimate the impact of the lockdown and current population immunity. We find that 2.9% of infected individuals are hospitalized and 0.5% of those infected die...
As of 7 May 2020, there were 95,210 incident hospitalizations due to SARS-CoV-2 reported in France and 16,386 deaths in hospitals, with the east of the country and the capital, Paris, particularly affected. The mean age of hospitalized patients was 68 years and the mean age of the deceased was 79 years, with 50.0% of hospitalizations occurring in individuals over 70 years of age and 81.6% of deaths within that age bracket...
The overall probability of death among those infected [the infection fatality ratio (IFR)] is 0.5% (95% CrI: 0.3 to 0.9%), ranging from 0.001% in those under 20 years of age to 8.3% (95% CrI: 4.7 to 13.5%) in those 80 years of age or older."
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