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Since the start of the Coronavirus emergency, the average age of patients who have died after being infected with SARS-CoV-2 it has always been tall, hovering around 80 years. However, there are not few who died at a young age after being infected. According to the data updated to December 16 from the Higher Institute of Health and the Ministry of Health, 737 people under the age of 50 have lost their lives due to Covid-19, that is,1.2% of the total 63,573 counted up to that point.
In particular, 190 of them were under 40 years of age and, except for twenty cases, presented previous pathologies, as read in the new update of the document “Characteristics of patients who died positive for Sars-CoV-2 infection in Italy”. Figures that are significant even if we consider what happens abroad. In fact, the United States registered 12,000 more deaths than expected in the age group between 25 and 49 years from March to July 2020, according to an investigation by the New York Times.
Returning to Italy, of the 63,573 deaths of people positive for the coronavirus for which information is available, 42% were women and the average age was 80 years. 37.9% occurred in Lombardy, followed at a distance byEmilia romagna (10.6%), Piedmont (8.7%) e Veneto (8%). In a sample of nearly 6,000 patients whose medical histories could be observed, the average number of pre-existing illnesses versus infection was 3.6, including hypertension, which was the most common chronic condition in victims. : it was present in up to 66% of the deceased, followed by diabetes (29.2%), ischemic heart disease (27%) and dementia (23.2%).
Meanwhile, the ISS and the Ministry know, the Covid-19 epidemic in Italy is in one “decreasing but slowed phase“, with the curve of new cases that seems to have settled but with a still too high number of deaths”. After a decrease in Rt we now have a kind of stabilization, the reduction is really slight with a slight increase in RT which is now 0.9. Some regions like Lazio and Lombardy have an unstable Rt, while Veneto has a number of new cases that seems to be high again ”, explained the Director General of Prevention of the Ministry of Health. Gianni Rezza.
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