RandyAg98 said:

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Why doesn't Texas release organized demographic data with age, race, etc? i feel like that would be valuable information for the public to have blasted to them.

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Bexar county has data for cased based on age groups. 20-40 group is probably half the cases. I don't know if its broken down in ages for hospitalized.

The Texas Covid 19 Dashboard site DOES publish age, gender, and race information for both cases and fatalities. However, they've only completed 20,579 case investigations (of 131,917 cases reported) and 662 fatality investigations (of 2,296 fatalities reported), so it's far from complete.

https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ed483ecd702b4298ab01e8b9cafc8b83

Complete Idiot said:

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The Texas Covid 19 Dashboard site DOES publish age, gender, and race information for both cases and fatalities. However, they've only completed 20,579 case investigations (of 131,917 cases reported) and 662 fatality investigations (of 2,296 fatalities reported), so it's far from complete.

https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ed483ecd702b4298ab01e8b9cafc8b83

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Yeah, it's hard not to notice that no one is talking about that data.

agforlife97 said:

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Complete Idiot said:

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The Texas Covid 19 Dashboard site DOES publish age, gender, and race information for both cases and fatalities. However, they've only completed 20,579 case investigations (of 131,917 cases reported) and 662 fatality investigations (of 2,296 fatalities reported), so it's far from complete.

https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ed483ecd702b4298ab01e8b9cafc8b83

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Yeah, it's hard not to notice that no one is talking about that data.

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I don't understand the comment, the impact by age has been discussed at length on this forum and in media that I've seen. Are you talking about Texas specific data?

agforlife97 said:

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Complete Idiot said:

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agforlife97 said:

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Complete Idiot said:

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The Texas Covid 19 Dashboard site DOES publish age, gender, and race information for both cases and fatalities. However, they've only completed 20,579 case investigations (of 131,917 cases reported) and 662 fatality investigations (of 2,296 fatalities reported), so it's far from complete.

https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ed483ecd702b4298ab01e8b9cafc8b83

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Yeah, it's hard not to notice that no one is talking about that data.

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I don't understand the comment, the impact by age has been discussed at length on this forum and in media that I've seen. Are you talking about Texas specific data?

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The media isn't talking about it at all. The average age of death in the US from covid is 81 while life expectancy is 77. Texas deaths so far show an average age of death at 75 plus also. Texas may very well be showing fewer deaths from covid right now because it's protecting its elderly better than NY did.

And things like long term effects from having covid are just speculation. Lots of things like "mysterious child disease linked to covid" have turned out to be bunkum so far, so chalk me up as skeptical. The media is driving a fear campaign.

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Well, I don't agree - I've seen it in many articles. I do admit I read articles only, and don't watch televised news, and tend to find articles by googling the information I am specifically interested in. I also wonder how you came to know the average ages, where did you read it?

https://www.google.com/search?q=average+age+of+covid+19+death&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS804US804&sxsrf=ALeKk02o5vUGLLMGUZ0z0hsDc5RIVa9Uvw:1593188642179&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjiw86Y8p_qAhVNAp0JHSZaCFYQ_AUoAXoECAwQAw&biw=1920&bih=975

Complete Idiot said:

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agforlife97 said:

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Complete Idiot said:

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agforlife97 said:

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Complete Idiot said:

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The Texas Covid 19 Dashboard site DOES publish age, gender, and race information for both cases and fatalities. However, they've only completed 20,579 case investigations (of 131,917 cases reported) and 662 fatality investigations (of 2,296 fatalities reported), so it's far from complete.

https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ed483ecd702b4298ab01e8b9cafc8b83

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Yeah, it's hard not to notice that no one is talking about that data.

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I don't understand the comment, the impact by age has been discussed at length on this forum and in media that I've seen. Are you talking about Texas specific data?

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The media isn't talking about it at all. The average age of death in the US from covid is 81 while life expectancy is 77. Texas deaths so far show an average age of death at 75 plus also. Texas may very well be showing fewer deaths from covid right now because it's protecting its elderly better than NY did.

And things like long term effects from having covid are just speculation. Lots of things like "mysterious child disease linked to covid" have turned out to be bunkum so far, so chalk me up as skeptical. The media is driving a fear campaign.

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Well, I don't agree - I've seen it in many articles. I do admit I read articles only, and don't watch televised news, and tend to find articles by googling the information I am specifically interested in. I also wonder how you came to know the average ages, where did you read it?

https://www.google.com/search?q=average+age+of+covid+19+death&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS804US804&sxsrf=ALeKk02o5vUGLLMGUZ0z0hsDc5RIVa9Uvw:1593188642179&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjiw86Y8p_qAhVNAp0JHSZaCFYQ_AUoAXoECAwQAw&biw=1920&bih=975

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I can't remember where I saw the 81 figure (but it makes sense considering around half of all covid deaths have been in nursing homes), but if you look at the texas covid dashboard you can see the average age of death in Texas for the 667 investigations they've done so far is 75+.

I would like to see side-by-side analysis of infections, hospitalizations and deaths resulting from the common flu.

But that is not going to happen either.

Don't worry. Covid-19 will miraculously disappear in the media reporting around the second week of November and everything will return to normal.

Virginia is tracking by age as well. You can view the data at the below link.

https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/coronavirus/

One thing that I have found interesting is that we have had very few, if any, deaths under the age of 50 in the last 6 weeks. I think all 14 of the deaths under the age of 40 occurred in the first weeks of the outbreak. I'm not sure if the virus is weakening, treatment is getting better or something else is happening but the number of deaths below 50 has nearly disappeared here.

Keegan99 said:

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I'm surprised UT Southwestern tweeted this, to be honest.

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28% of hospitalizations in Virginia were under 50. Not sure about the percentage of ICU since that info is not provided.

Gumby said:

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Keegan99 said:

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I'm surprised UT Southwestern tweeted this, to be honest.

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28% of hospitalizations in Virginia were under 50. Not sure about the percentage of ICU since that info is not provided.

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I wonder if this lends to the data that a lot of Illegals or migrant workers are crossing the border with COVID symptoms to get US healthcare.

Would explain a lot as to why Texas, Arizona, and LA have seen dramatic increases.

Keegan99 said:

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I'm surprised UT Southwestern tweeted this, to be honest.

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Looking at their tweet history, whoever is running their social media appears to be falling right in line with the current wave of "wokeness"

cone said:

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just curious how NYC could have day by day demo data with age, sex, ethnicity, and underlying conditions for both deaths and hospitalizations but nothing of that sort in Harris County

it's at best half ass

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NYC is kinda a gross place. They likely have much better funded public health departments. Additionally they may have had different guidelines passed out to doctors offices and testing sites on what data to gather and report.

Harris county, and other Texas counties, may have the data but just haven't had the time/resources to piece it all together yet. Or they may have not been collecting it in the first place. At least with STDs they have to report all that information, so I suspect it's there, just waiting on someone to put it all together.

sounds like a really hard job, making a bunch of phone calls

Keegan99 said:

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I'm surprised UT Southwestern tweeted this, to be honest.

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Intentionally vague and doesn't paint the entire picture, how many have other health issues? I'm shocked that Texas (or at least Dallas County) doesn't consider obesity at any level high risk. I saw a report from NYC and think it was 50-60% of hospitalizations had a BMI over 40.

what % of the population has BMI greater than 30

Just looked and will revise my post, but its BMI over 40, my mistake.

Gumby said:

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ClickClackAg31 said:

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Gumby said:

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Keegan99 said:

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I'm surprised UT Southwestern tweeted this, to be honest.

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28% of hospitalizations in Virginia were under 50. Not sure about the percentage of ICU since that info is not provided.

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I wonder if this lends to the data that a lot of Illegals or migrant workers are crossing the border with COVID symptoms to get US healthcare.

Would explain a lot as to why Texas, Arizona, and LA have seen dramatic increases.

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That and the fact that hispanics are being infected at 5 to 7 times the rate of other races. You may be on to something.

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One of the links, I think maybe Keegan posted, breaks the demographics down, and about 60% of hospitalizations in Austin are Hispanic . I too am surprised the media doesn't post this, if I was a Hispanic leader I would be furious and be all over any outlet I could find. They really need to be protecting themselves.

I don't think I've seen that for Austin.

The only thing I recall sharing was the semi-anecdotal tweet from UT Southwestern above.

The lack of demographic data - both age and ethnicity - is surprising. Makes me wonder why? Especially if it might be so incongruous with the population at large? As you implied, seems like it could be used to formulate smarter policies and craft sharper messaging efforts?

Found it here , Keeper of the spirits posted it in another thread. I think I read this right, right 60%?
https://austin.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/39e4f8d4acb0433baae6d15a931fa984

Both the state and Travis county dashboards have cases and/or fatalities by age, gender, race. As mentioned above.

The travis county dashboard seems to cover the whole MSA, which includes parts of other counties, and it says 70% of hospitalizations are white, by race, but 59% are Hispanic by ethnicity (41% non-hispanic).

I'm not following the math here? I'm seeing 27% as white hospitalizations .

Ah, the Travis County dashboard is generally up to date. 59% Hispanic seems significant.

The state data is really stale, unfortunately.

Aust Ag said:

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I'm not following the math here?

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I have to admit I wasn't fully up to speed with the different categorizations and it didn't make sense to me. But explained here (I think) : https://www.census.gov/mso/www/training/pdf/race-ethnicity-onepager.pdf

Maybe I'm naive or this wouldn't be supported by minorities, but I've always disliked news articles always breaking everything down by race - any topic seemingly. To me it just seems like a constant "see we're different" being thrown in people's faces, often forced. CAn't we all be Americans? Humans? In my mind economic status divides society and thought more than other groupings. I'm fine being grouped into American categorization but I'm tired of trying to categorize by skin tone or country you or your parents were from. But again, perhaps thats naive, short sighted, over simplifying it, I don't know.

Keegan99 said:

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Ah, the Travis County dashboard is generally up to date. 59% Hispanic seems significant.

The state data is really stale, unfortunately.

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Wow. I that correct in Travis County?

Keegan99 said:

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Ah, the Travis County dashboard is generally up to date. 59% Hispanic seems significant.

The state data is really stale, unfortunately.

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Agreed, it's frustrating. How can Travis County be able to group 109 of 116 deaths into age categories, but state of Texas only lists 662 total deaths by age category (out of like 2400 deaths). That info is very relevant to behaviors and public guidance so why not keep it up to date. Is it the fault of other counties? Somehow Travis provided data on 109 of the 662 state deaths but other counties zero maybe? Not sure who it is at fault but it sucks to see that number unchanged day after day or even week after week.