The CDC Publishes Death Numbers for Covid-19

Dr. Eshani Niranya Karu MD
1 min readJul 8, 2021

I saw these number and I wanted to share them with those of you who are not aware the the majority of people dying from Covid-19 are 65 and over. If you begin to include 40 years old and over, the percentage of the 596,740 total number of people who have died of Covid-19 is the vast majority, greater than 90%. The Covid-19 numbers are very skewed towards older people dying. How about those under the age of 40 comprised less than 2% of Covid-19 deaths.

My numbers were taken from this data file: https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Sex-and-Age/9bhg-hcku/data

These are a few of their numbers:

Total Deaths — 596,740

40 and older — 435,193

30 to 39–6,974

18 to 29–2,424

15 to 24–988

5 to 14–116

1 to 4–38

0 to 17–331

Under 1 Year — 82

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