Volume 5, Number 5—October 1999
Research
The Economic Impact of Pandemic Influenza in the United States: Priorities for Intervention
Martin I. Meltzer
, Nancy J. Cox, and Keiji Fukuda
, Nancy J. Cox, and Keiji FukudaTable 5
Impact, by age group, death, hospitalizations, and outpatients accounted for by groups at high risk during an influenza pandemica
| Category | Age group
(yrs) | Total cases at high risk (%) |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | 5th | 95th | |||
| Death | 0-19 | 9.0 | 1.4 | 20.2 | |
| 20-64 | 40.9 | 11.1 | 60.9 | ||
| 65 + | 34.4 | 22.7 | 52.1 | ||
| Total | 84.3 | ||||
| Hospitalizations | 0-19 | 4.6 | 2.1 | 7.9 | |
| 20-64 | 14.7 | 7.4 | 23.4 | ||
| 65 + | 18.3 | 11.0 | 27.6 | ||
| Total | 37.6 | ||||
| Outpatients | 0-19 | 5.0 | 4.7 | 5.4 | |
| 20-64 | 10.4 | 9.8 | 11.0 | ||
| 65 + | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.2 | ||
| Total | 19.5 | ||||
aSee Table 1 for distribution of groups at high and not at high risk within
the U.S. population.
