Population-level COVID-19 mortality risk for non-elderly individuals overall and for non-elderly individuals without underlying diseases in pandemic epicenters

John P. A. Ioannidis; Cathrine Axfors; Despina G. Contopoulos-Ioannidis

is the (which was not peer-reviewed) The copyright holder for this preprint . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.05.20054361 doi: medRxiv preprint Europe and Washington State, while New York City and Michigan have slightly lower percentages of people ≥80 years old. There is a preponderance of men among all patients who died (56-69%) and this may be a bit more prominent among patients who died younger than 65, but information on this last variable is missing in several locations. ND ND: no data; ^Using data with available information on age; * data available only for the group with age <60 (the number shown in brackets is the approximated estimate for age <65 assuming that a third of the deaths in the 60-69 bracket are in <65 years old people, as suggested by other countries where data are available on 5-year age intervals); ** data available only on age ≥75; # personal communication with Luigi Palmieri.