Most COVID-19 cases are 30-50

Posted on September 9, 2020

Nearly half of Taylor County’s reported positive coronavirus (COVID-19) cases to date have been among those in either their 30s or 40s, with young children making up only 1% of the local cases.

Of the 1,230 positive cases reported since the start of the outbreak here in April, 47.9% were between the ages of 30 and 49, according to data made available by the Florida Department of Health (FDOH)

To date, 27.2% of the county’s positive cases have been reported in those between the ages of 30 and 39, the highest percentage of any decade age group.

The second-highest positive rate has been reported in people in their 40s, with 20.7% of the county’s cases.

Next are those who are in their 20s, an age group that made up 18.1% of the local cases.

People 19 years old and younger made up just 5.2% of the county’s cases, with a total of just 65 cases reported to date. Of those, only 14 (or 1.1%) were below the age of 10.

Meanwhile, there have been 177 positive cases (14.4%) reported in people in their 50s, with the percentage falling lower for each decade after.

Among people in their 70s, there have been 47 positive cases, making up 3.8% of the county’s total cases. For people in their 80s, there have been 20 cases (1.6%) and just four cases among people in their 90s (0.3%).

However, similar to COVID-19 data reported on the state and national levels, deaths attributed to the disease have been disproportionately higher among the older populations.

To date, there have been 10 deaths attributed to COVID-19 in Taylor County, with the ages of the patients ranging from 62 to 92.

Three of those who died were in their 60s, accounting for 2.8% of the reported positive cases in that age group. Four who died were in their 70s (8.5% of the reported cases).

One fatality was in their 80s, making up 5% of 20 reported cases in that age group.

For people in their 90s, two of the four reported patients succumbed to the disease.

These fatality rates do not take into account people in those age groups who may have contracted COVID-19 but were never tested and subsequently recovered.

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