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Table 1 Age-specific COVID-19 cases and deaths in Victoria, Australia, during 25 January through 10 December, 2020. Observed case fatality risk (CFR) is the ratio of deaths to cases. Fitted CFR and 95% confidence intervals (CI) are from the fitted logistic CFR model

From: Estimating age-specific COVID-19 fatality risk and time to death by comparing population diagnosis and death patterns: Australian data

Age group (years)

Cases

Deaths

Observed CFR

(%)

Fitted CFR

(%)

95% CI

(%)

0 – 9

1226

0

0

 < 0.01

 < 0.01

10 – 19

2035

0

0

 < 0.01

 < 0.01

20 – 29

4772

1

0.02

 < 0.01

 < 0.01

30 – 39

3525

2

0.06

0.01

0.003 – 0.03

40 – 49

2551

1

0.04

0.06

0.03 – 0.13

50 – 59

2205

14

0.63

0.46

0.26 – 0.69

60—69

1297

28

2.16

2.86

2.19 – 3.50

70 – 79

902

130

14.41

13.71

11.95 – 15.80

80 – 89

1094

349

31.90

32.00

29.71 – 34.17

 > 90

737

295

40.03

40.04

36.63 – 43.57

Total

20,344

820

4.03

4.03

3.76 – 4.30