# How many elderly covid patients get mild cases? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [November 12, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-elderly-covid-patients-get-mild-cases/925445 "2020-11-12T17:57:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-elderly-covid-patients-get-mild-cases/925445/21 "2020-11-19T19:20:44Z")
Assuming that we can trust the CDC, and that hospitalizations = severe cases… Relative to the 18-29 year group, people in the following groups have: - 50-64 years: 4x higher chance of hospitalization, 30x higher chance of death. - 65-74 years: 5x higher chance of hospitalization, 90x higher chance of death. - 75-84 years: 8x higher chance of hospitalization, 220x higher chance of death - 85+ years: 13x higher chance of hospitalization, 630x higher chance of death So it looks like the overall severity of cases doesn’t go up as dramatically with age as the death rate does. > **[Cases, Data, and Surveillance](https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-age.html)** > > Cases, data, and surveillance to track and analyze COVID-19. ---
**Author:** ![Retzbu\_Tox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/retzbu_tox/32/11829_2.png) [@Retzbu\_Tox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Retzbu_Tox)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-elderly-covid-patients-get-mild-cases/925445/22 "2020-12-02T05:21:05Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Good to hear & keep us posted. She’s out of the hospital and back at home! And, I had her age wrong - she’s 99! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-elderly-covid-patients-get-mild-cases/925445/23 "2020-12-02T13:56:50Z")
Yaay! Go Mom! ---
**Author:** ![dummygladhands71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-elderly-covid-patients-get-mild-cases/925445/24 "2020-12-03T04:16:40Z")
My 95 year old Mom, in a memory care facility on lockdown, tested positive a few months ago, and to this day is not symptomatic. Weird ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-elderly-covid-patients-get-mild-cases/925445/25 "2021-02-15T16:48:26Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > Just out of curiosity, what kind of symptoms did the cat have? Interesting [news](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/skorea-covid-cat-pets/2021/02/15/717396f2-6f4e-11eb-8651-6d3091eac63f_story.html) being reported today, > The Seoul government said it had found its first case of covid-19 in a cat on Monday, shortly after offering free tests to pets in the Korean capital. > > Experts say there is no evidence cats or dogs can pass the novel coronavirus to humans, but they have nevertheless placed the cat in a 14-day quarantine. It was tested after having symptoms of vomiting and decreased activity, and after the family it lives with were all found to have contracted covid-19, officials said. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-elderly-covid-patients-get-mild-cases/925445.md?page=1)