1. This is New York City's list of deaths from Coronavirus as of this morning. It's 1,397.

18 of those are people who died ONLY of the virus. The rest died of the virus and something else. Or perhaps they died of something else, but also had the virus.

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-daily-data-summary-deaths.pdf

2. That doesn't lessen the tragedy or the public health urgency of fighting the virus. But it suggests we can have a different approach to people who are at a low risk versus people who are at a high risk.

Protect people with underlying conditions. Let the rest go to work.

3. Perhaps the most striking fact from New York City's stats is that of age. Only one person under 18 has died (and he had an underlying condition. Yet our schools are closed.

4. Only 61 people under the age of 45 have died, and all but 5 had underlying conditions. According to this chart, under 45's are 61% of the NYC population. https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/population-geography/age_distribution.htm But under 45s are only 5% of the deaths.

5. (I am just using the number for patients for which it was known if there was an underlying condition; there are still some patients about whom that information is pending. I think that alters my stats by a percent or two. But the point remains.)

6. And that point is this: how about let's not waste medical attention on people who are extremely unlikely to need it. Let's double or triple the attention on those who do need it.

And in so doing, we'll let working age people get back to work.

7. As in, only 6.6% of New Yorkers are aged 75 and up. Yet that's 42% of the deaths.

How about: stop the total lock-down on the entire population.

Give all the care and protection to the sick and the elderly.

And let everyone else go back to work to pay for it all.