BBC coronavirus UK warning: Pensioners face ‘rapid increase’ in risk of death from illness
Sir Patrick Vallance outlined that the mortality rate of COVID-19 cases for people over the age of 80 is around eight percent, he then contrasted this with the mortality rate for children under which is “essentially zero”.
The Government chief scientific adviser stated that this was due to the likelihood of people over the age of 80 to have co-existing illnesses in comparison to any other demographic.
Sir Patrick Vallance said: “Older people are vulnerable to all sorts of illnesses more than younger people so it is a bit of aging which makes you vulnerable. “There is definitely a situation where if you do have other co-existing illnesses you are more likely to suffer from this in terms of mobility and mortality.
“So the death rate in this disease changes quite rapidly from essentially zero in children, up to eight or so percent in people over the age of 80. “There is quite a steep increase after the age of about 60 and a much more steeper increase in people with co-existing illnesses.”
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