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Why so many Covid deaths in Italy? To find an answer, you have to go beyond the numbers in the Johns Hopkins University report. “First of all, we are scrupulous in calculating deaths from coronavirus, as required by the World Health Organization. We don’t know if countries with lower numbers use the same criteria, he says. Roberto Bernabei, director of the Department of Geriatrics at the Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome and professor at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart -. In addition, our life expectancy is among the highest in the world (83 years, ed) and consequently we have many elderly people, most of them frail ».
March and April
The deceased from Covid, in Italy, have an average age of 80 years and at least one chronic disease, such as diabetes, hypertension, tumors. But there are many patients with two or three comorbidities. To explain the extremely high mortality, we must also make another reasoning, relative to the months of March and April. No other country has faced such a rapid and deadly spread of the virus in a matter of weeks. In Lombardy, the total deaths (not just for Covid) was 42,700 in the two months, respectively 191% (March) and 117% (April) more than the average for the years 2015-19. Today the situation is different, but every day there are hundreds of victims.
Social contacts
«The Italian situation is the result of many elements – he says Paolo Bonanni, Professor of Hygiene at the University of Florence -. In addition to the criteria for calculating deaths from (or with) Covid and the high life expectancy, we must take into account our social habits. Family and intergenerational contacts are close and frequent, which is not the case in other countries. The number of deaths is not attributable to medical negligence, which in Italy is very rare: we have excellent diagnostic and therapeutic skills. by Gianni rezza, Director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, “excess mortality in Italy is around 40%, a figure comparable to the European one”.
December 19, 2020 (change December 19, 2020 | 23:16)
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