“We’re seeing the real demographic distribution of this disease,” said Dr. Sandro Galea, dean at the Boston University School of Public Health. “If you look at Italy, this is exactly what they had. But in Italy the overwhelmingly higher death rate is really driven by the fact that they had a lot more people over age 80.”
In Massachusetts, almost half of the people who have tested positive for COVID-19 are under age 50. That figure is actually disproportionately low for a state in which 62 percent of the population is under 50, according to US Census figures.”