Originally Posted by jonbxx

Seeing as this virus seems to adversely affect the elderly, one question popped up in my head - how does the mortality risk from a coronavirus infection compare to the mortality risk of simply being old? Or, put another way (and yes, this is dispassionate) is being old in itself and underlying health condition?

Well I finally found an article on this - https://medium.com/wintoncentre/how-...t-4539118e1196

It seems, on average, a coronavirus infection packs a year worth of risk of mortality in to around a week! There are some outliers for example, the very young (0-9 years old) having a relatively high mortality with little coronavirus risk and it seems like the 60-69 year age bracket run the most additional risk. Note that underlying health conditions apart from simply being old are not taken into account...