USA COVID-19 Cases and Deaths by Age

Using data from CDC's Provisional COVID-19 Death Counts by Sex, Age, and State and COVID Data Tracker (CDC publishes a weekly update on Wednesdays and the data date is shown on the graph. 

Number of people by age group who have contracted and died from COVID-19

Age group	Population	Cases	Cases per 100,000 age group population	Deaths	Deaths per 100,000 age group population
0-17	73,776,684	4,023,705	5,454	532	0.7
18-44	117,055,222	11,993,200	10,246	16,018	14
45-64	83,904,335	7,519,955	8,963	106,345	127
65-74	30,492,316	2,023,133	6,635	132,992	436
75+	21,938,877	1,648,079	7,512	340,853	1,554
TOTALS:	327,167,434	27,208,072		596,740

COVID-19 case and death percentages in tabular form:

Age group	% of Population	% of total cases	% of total deaths	% death / age group cases
0-17	22.6%	14.8%	0.1%	0.01%
18-44	35.8%	44.1%	2.7%	0.1%
45-64	25.6%	27.6%	17.8%	1.4%
65-74	9.3%	7.4%	22.3%	6.6%
75+	6.7%	6.1%	57.1%	20.7%
TOTALS:	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%

One of the issues that has been raised during the pandemic is how to determine the 'true' number of people that have had COVID-19 and, consequently, how many have died from the disease. The BBC has published an article, Coronavirus, What is the true death toll of the pandemic?, which illustrates this conundrum.

BBC graph showing the reported Coronavirus deaths and "excess" deaths.

Here is the CDC's analysis of data illustrating excess deaths due to COVID-19 :

Graph used in Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19