People have wondered why Italy has such a high mortality rate. Strangely enough it may be in part because we have such a good medical system and in part because of that an aging population.

This information was published by AGI (Agenzia Italia)

The report is clearly based on information that was collected some time ago and annalised when all the data became available.

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Only 1.2% of the deceased had no pathologies...
Only 1.2% of people who died with coronavirus had no pathology at all. This can be read in the updated report from the Institute of Health on the characteristics of deceased patients. The survey, conducted on 481 victims, found that 6 patients (1.2% of the sample) had 0 pathologies, 113 (23.5%) had 1 pathology, 128 had 2 pathologies (26.6%) and 234 (48.6%) had 3 or more pathologies. The average age of deceased and coronavirus positive patients is 78.5 years. Higher by 15 years than the average age of positives. There are 942 women (29.4%).

36 deaths among the under-50s, 9 the 30-year-olds
There are 36 deaths with coronavirus in Italy among those under 50, a percentage of 1.1%. In particular, 9 of them were under 40 years old and were 8 male and 1 female between 31 and 39 years old. Of 2 patients under 40 years of age no clinical information is available, the other 7 had serious pre-existing pathologies (cardiovascular, renal, psychiatric, diabetes, obesity). This can be read in the updated report of the Istituto Superiore di Sanita' on the characteristics of the deceased patients.

Peter

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