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According to new data, more than 70% of coronavirus patients admitted to critical care are men.
The figures come from the UK National Center for Intensive Care Audit and Investigation (ICNARC) and were based on a sample of 7,542 critically ill patients confirmed as Covid-19. The researchers found that 5,389 of these patients were men and 2,149 were women.
The report, released Friday, also found that men were more likely to die in intensive care, with 51% death compared to approximately 43% of women admitted.
The report analyzed data on patients with confirmed Covid-19 from 286 NHS critical care units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland who participated in the ICNARC program until 4pm on Thursday.
The new data echo comments from a leading expert who said Covid-19 was as deadly as Ebola for people admitted to the hospital in the UK.
Professor Calum Semple of the University of Liverpool, a respiratory pediatric consultant at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and principal investigator in a study published on Wednesday, said the data He highlighted the danger of the coronavirus.
The research carried out by Semple and his team found that of the total number of coronavirus patients admitted to hospital, 17% required admission to high-dependency or intensive care units, and of these, 31% were discharged. alive, 45% died and 24% continued to be treated in hospital.
Semple explained: “Some people persist in believing that Covid-19 is not worse than a bad dose of flu.
“They are seriously wrong. Despite the best supportive care we can provide, the crude death rate of people admitted to hospital – that is, the proportion of people sick enough to need hospital treatment who later die – with severe Covid-19 it is 35 to 40%, which is similar to that of people admitted to the hospital with Ebola. It is a really nasty disease. “
New ICNARC data also showed that about 56% of people ages 60 to 69, 67% of people ages 70 to 79, and 65% of people age 80 and older who entered critical care died there, compared to approximately 24% of people under the age of 50.
It also found that about 26% of critical care patients with Covid-19 were black or Asian, compared to 66% white.
A separate report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies found that deaths per capita among the black Caribbean population in English hospitals are three times higher than those of British whites.
This follows a report from the Office for National Statistics which found that people living in the most disadvantaged areas of England have experienced more than double death rates from coronavirus than those living in the least disadvantaged areas.
The ICNARC report also said that 25% of patients with critical care coronaviruses belonged to the most disadvantaged quintile (fifth of the population), compared to 14.5% who were in the least deprived.
