I would like to see this locked down properly. That will take time. What is obvious is that if you are sick from what are already end of life chronic disease, COV 19 is a deadly danger.
The good news is that we have learned how to handle it and largely cure it asl will.
In the meantime the disease is circulating in the population like flue and not showing up at all for most of us. Just like flue by the by.
The best protection is crowd exposure to provide a low level engagemnt. Isolation has always been exceedingly dangerous for these types of diseases. I do think that we all got exposed during January through mid March. We then went home to avoid risk of additional super exposure. Actually a good plan. Now we should have decent crowd immunity allowiong contact again.
Will still have occurances but these can be handled.
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Italy: 96% of Coronavirus Fatalities Had Other Chronic Illnesses 6,886
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27 May 20201398
ROME — The overwhelming majority of deaths with coronavirus in Italy have occurred in the presence of two or more serious chronic illnesses, according to a report from the country’s national health authority (ISS).
Italian health authorities announced in a recent report that only 4.1 percent of fatalities testing positive for Wuhan coronavirus happened in the absence of serious comorbidities, while the average age of the deceased was over 80 years.
The average number of comorbidities among all Italian deaths with the coronavirus was 3.1, ISS revealed. Just 15 percent of fatalities occurred with the presence of just one other serious pathology, while 21.4 percent died with two other pathologies, and 59.6 percent with three or more pathologies.
The most common comorbidities were arterial hypertension (in 68.3 percent of cases), type-2 diabetes (30.1 percent of cases), ischemic heart disease (in 28.2 percent), atrial fibrillation (22.5 percent), chronic renal failure (20.4 percent).
Most common comorbidities among Italy deaths with coronavirus.
The report also revealed an average age of 81 among those who have died with coronavirus in Italy. One of the most astonishing findings of the report was that only 1.1 percent of all coronavirus deaths in the country happened to people below the age of 50, while more than 57 percent were over 80.
“The latest numbers show that new cases and fatalities have a common profile: mostly elderly people with previous illnesses,” said ISS president Silvio Brusaferro at a news conference Friday.
As of May 26, the number of active cases of coronavirus in Italy had fallen to 52,942. The total number of deaths with the disease have been 32,955, while total recorded cases stands at 230,555.
This week Spain had to revise down its official death count for the coronavirus by nearly 2,000 after discovering a series of reporting errors and duplications.
The Spanish Health Ministry announced Monday that it removed 1,918 spurious deaths from the official death toll, representing a seven percent drop in the total deaths reported.
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