TABLE 1.

Infection fatality rate of ancestral variants of COVID-19 pre-vaccination by age.

Age	Median IFR %	Median IFR (absolute)	Survival rate estimate (%)
0–19	0.0027	1 in 37 037	99.9973
20–29	0.0140	1 in 7143	99.9860
30–39	0.0310	1 in 3225	99.9690
40–49	0.0820	1 in 1220	99.9180
50–59	0.2700	1 in 370	99.7300
60–69	0.5900	1 in 169	99.4100
> 70 community	2.4000	1 in 42	97.6000
> 70 overall	5.5000	1 in 18	94.5000

Source: Adapted from Axfors C, Ioannidis JPA. Infection fatality rate of COVID-19 in community-dwelling elderly populations. Eur J Epidemiol. In press 2022;37(3):235–249. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-022-00853-w

IFR, infection fatality rate.