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Figures from the pathology show: Most victims die from Covid-19, not from its comorbidities.
12:59 pm, October 28, 2020
As a consequence of the increasing number of SARS-CoV-2 infections and diseases resulting from Covid-19 the number of deaths is also increasing again. The pathology figures prove: Most victims die from Covid-19, not from its comorbidities.
Obviously wrong is the opinion that appears time and again in the public and in the media that the majority of the victims of the crown are among the people. who were seriously ill prior to SARS-CoV-2 infection. His expected mortality had been “driven” by Covid-19.
“That is not true. One Comorbidity (Concomitant disease; note) itself plays less of a role than restrictions on functionality for the patient. But that’s the case with all serious illnesses, not just Covid-19, “Walter Hasibeder, upcoming president of the Austrian Society for Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Care Medicine (ÖGARI) said Wednesday in front of the APA.
Certain previous diseases and especially age naturally increased the risk of a severe course of the disease. “But when patients with Covid-19 die, it is mainly from Covid-19, not from previous illnesses,” explained the intensive care doctor. But be that Functionality, that is, the ability to face daily life independently, very limited, the prognosis of those affected worsens.
“A former disease as well as a well adapted arterial hypertension or a Diabetes do not in themselves mean a reduction in performance, “said Hasibeder, department head of the Zams Hospital in Tyrol. On the contrary, as the expert put it:” Most of the patients who were admitted to our intensive care unit during the first pandemic phase suffered tTypical diseases of civilization. Most of them were in good physical and mental shape despite their median age of 72 years. “
Ironically, the two youngest patients, ages 30 and 40, would have developed the most severe lung failure and would have had to be connected to an ECMO device for artificial lung replacement.
Of course, there is an age curve in mortality from Covid-19. The dashboard of the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) shows a mortality rate of 0.5 cases for men for the age group between 55 and 64 years for every 100 sick people; for women it is still zero. Between the ages of 65 and 74, 4.5 percent of affected men and 1.7 percent of women die.
Between 75 and 84 years of age, mortality from Covid 19 among men is eleven percent and among women almost half (6.4 percent). The 84-year-old or older group has a Covid-19 mortality rate of 22.2 percent among men and 13.9 percent among women.
In Germany, pathologists evaluated 154 autopsies in 68 institutes: 86 percent of the Covid 19 victims examined had directly succumbed to the virus disease. The Italian National Statistical Institute (Istat) came up with a similar study of 89 percent. Only eleven percent had died of another underlying condition with a SARS-CoV-2 infection.
However, a German registry of around 10,000 Covid 19 patients showed that a significant proportion of those treated in hospital Pre-existing disease exhibited: More than half (56 percent) hypertension.27 percent had Cardiac arrhythmia, 14 percent one Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and six percent Obesity.
“It depends on the functional reserves that patients have,” Hasibeder said. And it is reported from the US that 20 percent of those hospitalized or deceased due to Covid-19 are young, that would not be a contradiction. “They were young but not healthy.“With obesity rates of 40 percent, that’s just a high risk.
