I was scanning Yahoo (Jun 18) and came across an interesting article about declining deaths due to coronavirus. One of my daily web surfing duties is to check out Worldometer and I've definitely noticed that the US deaths during the first half of June were coming in below 1,000 per day. The journalist of this article points out that the lower deaths is being driven by a demographic shift in who is getting infected. That is, younger people are now more likely to test positive for the virus:
There is some data to support this theory. In March, the median age of all Floridians who tested positive for COVID-19 was around 60; since then, the median age has fallen to about 35. A full three-quarters of Florida residents with COVID-19 are now younger than 50.
In Arizona, meanwhile, residents under 45 accounted for about 40 percent of all COVID-19 cases two months ago. Today they represent more than 56 percent of the state’s cases.
Similar trend lines are emerging in Texas, Georgia, California and other states. In Georgia, 53 percent of new cases on June 16 were of people under 40 years old, up from 34.5 percent on June 2. In California, the share of people under 35 with COVID-19 has increased by 15 percentage points over the last month (to 44 percent), while the share of cases over 50 has fallen by the same amount (to 30 percent).
