Covid mortality
statistics from ABS
In summary:
Case fatality rate:
number of deaths divided by number of confirmed infections by infections in %
0.1% for age group 0-59 but progressively rises to 46% for males and 33.5% for females in 90+ age group
Covid and associated other conditions
9% reported as only cause in death certificate
75% had pre-existing conditions and also conditions listed in the chain of events leading to death.
Conditions listed in causal chain of events = such as Covid causing pneumonia causing respiratory failure leading to death etc etc
Pre-existing conditions
Surprisingly obesity listed in only 4% of deaths - I thought this would be higher.
Chronic cardiac conditions listed in 36.5%
dementia 31.8%
I suspect the obesity % is less because the deaths are enormously skewed to the elderly who tend to have chronic cardiac, dementia, chronic respiratory diseases, cancer
Would be interesting to see the breakdown of obesity in each age cohort.
Covid deaths and country of birth
The important statistic here is the "Age standardised death rate" = the weighted average of the age specific mortality rate per 100,000 people. - weighted according to the proportion of persons in the corresponding age groups based on the WHO standard population
Importantly
- Countries under 2.0/100000 are: Australia, UK, North East Asia
- Countries under 3.0 are: New Zealand, Other North Western Europe, South East Asia, Americas
- Countries with the highest aged standardised death rates = Samoa, North Macedonia, North Africa and Middle East,
Covid deaths and Socio-economic index rank areas in Australia
Deaths in the lowest socioeconomic areas was over 4 times for those in the lowest SEIFA quintile (lowest 20% of IRSD scores) compared with the quntile 5 (top 20% of score)
Rather than a pandemic of the unvaccinated, this has been a pandemic of the old, infirm and poor
Question 1: Did the heavy police presence and enforcement help the old, infirm and poor?
Question 2: What should have been done differently, if anything?