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<blockquote data-quote="Lupf" data-source="post: 2263590" data-attributes="member: 518059"><p>Hi [USER=468338]@MTS1980[/USER] </p><p>The short answer is that the mortality rate for this person (you?) is quite low, about 0.6%.</p><p></p><p>Here is how to estimate this. The average mortality rate from Covid is around 1.4%, for males it is twice as high, say 2.0%, compared to females at 1.0%. If you are healthy and around 40 you are about five times better off than the average healthy male, but if you have well controlled diabetes, (HB1Ac < 9.5, this factor reduces to about 3.3, so your mortality rate is about 0.6%. This is a simple estimate, just using the available numbers, but it gives the scale. For comparison, the average mortality rate of flu is about 0.1%, so at least 10 times lower then for Covid. your rate would be lower as flu is more dangerous for the elderly.</p><p></p><p>hope that helps</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lupf, post: 2263590, member: 518059"] Hi [USER=468338]@MTS1980[/USER] The short answer is that the mortality rate for this person (you?) is quite low, about 0.6%. Here is how to estimate this. The average mortality rate from Covid is around 1.4%, for males it is twice as high, say 2.0%, compared to females at 1.0%. If you are healthy and around 40 you are about five times better off than the average healthy male, but if you have well controlled diabetes, (HB1Ac < 9.5, this factor reduces to about 3.3, so your mortality rate is about 0.6%. This is a simple estimate, just using the available numbers, but it gives the scale. For comparison, the average mortality rate of flu is about 0.1%, so at least 10 times lower then for Covid. your rate would be lower as flu is more dangerous for the elderly. hope that helps [/QUOTE]
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