So, I found a few figures and the number's are genuinely scary...As at yesterday, for COVID:
- The median age of all cases is 37 years (range: 0 to 106 years).
- The median age of deaths is 86 years (range: 30 to 106 years).
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The ABS says in 2018 (Last year of avail data)
- Median age at death was 78.9 years for males and 84.8 years for females.
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If you assume (I know, I know), the "average" age at death in Australia is (78.9+84.8)/2 = 81.85, then there is
zero value to be "saved" in the "statistical value of life" calculations, as those who died with COVID have already passed the "notional date of death" that would be used in that application. From the available data, it looks to me that those dying from COVID are, by and large, those who would die from
anything if they were to catch it, influenza, pneumonia, even a common cold.