11/25/2023 0 Comments Italy lockdown february 2020![]() ![]() Moreover, COVID-19 morbidity and mortality is strongly dependent on the presence of concomitant serious diseases, and Italy has a high proportion of patients with history of smoking and high rates of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and ischemic heart disease. The median age of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 who are dying in Italy has been 80 years, and the average age of patients requiring critical care support has been 67 years. COVID-19 has a strong age dependence for the severity of the infection and the risk of death. Italy has the most elderly population in Europe and the second most elderly population in the world after Japan. Some factors pertain to demographics and background disease in the population. Some other contributing factors are potentially modifiable. ![]() Some contributing factors may be immutable (eg, age structure of the population), but even these need to be laid out carefully in preparedness assessments. It is important to understand why death rates were so high in Italy to learn how to best prepare and how to plan for optimal actions in other countries. The number of cases and deaths cannot be explained simply because of the epidemic starting in Italy earlier compared with other countries besides China. In the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, Italy has been hit very hard, 1 with 110 574 documented cases and 13 155 documented deaths related to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection as of April 1, 2020.
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