Maybe more in the "it's just the flu" department with this placenta eating virus but while we're talking about covid deaths and ages it's also worth considering a group that was left out there which is the under zero crowd.
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220211/covid-causes-extensive-damage-to-placenta"David Schwartz, MD, a pathologist in Atlanta, and the lead author of the study, said COVID appears to be unique in destroying the placenta.
"I don't know of any infection that does that to this degree or with this uniformity," Schwartz says. "The simple message is that this infection is chewing up the placenta and destroying its capability to oxygenate the fetus."
The CDC reported in November that COVID-19 increases the risk of losing a pregnancy. From March 2020 to September 2021, 8,154 stillbirths were reported, affecting 0.65% of births by women without COVID and 1.26% of births by women with COVID-19.
Delta, the variant that dominated in mid-2021, appears to have been particularly harmful. The CDC reported that the relative risk for stillbirth for mothers with COVID-19 during that period increased to 4.04. Many cases in the new analysis coincided with Delta.
Schwartz and his colleagues say vaccines, along with antiviral therapy, might reduce the chance of the virus infecting the placenta. None of the mothers in the analysis was vaccinated, and Schwartz said he is not aware of a single case in a vaccinated woman."