Studies on Covid-19 Lethality

“1) Median age of covid deaths per country

7) Antibody studies ...

In most Western countries, the median age of covid deaths is 80+ years and about 50% of deaths occurred in care homes …

For comparison, the IFR of seasonal influenza, against which prior immunity and vaccines exist, is about 0.05% to 0.1%; the IFR of epidemic and medium pandemic influenza, such as in 1936, 1951, 1957 and 1968, is about 0.3%; the IFR of the 1918 pandemic influenza was about 2%.”

Notes:

• According to the table in this section, estimates for the Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) of COVID-19 range from 0.04-0.68%.
  
  
• For a list of IFRs by country, see the remainder of this table.