Older patients at much higher risk

“An analysis of 44,672 coronavirus patients in China whose diagnoses were confirmed by laboratory testing has found that 1,023 had died by Feb. 11. That’s a fatality rate of 2.3 percent.

That is far higher than the mortality rate of the seasonal flu, with which the new coronavirus has sometimes been compared.

Thirty percent of those who died were in their 60s, 30 percent were in their 70s and 20 percent were age 80 or older. Though men and women were roughly equally represented among the confirmed cases, men made up nearly 64 percent of the deaths. Patients with underlying medical conditions, such as cardiovascular disease or diabetes, died at higher rates.”

Coronavirus Live Updates: Disease Roughly 20 Times Deadlier Than Seasonal Flu https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/world/asia/china-coronavirus.html