Statements that should make us reflect. Before it’s too late once again. Who today ends up in intensive care for Covid-19? “The new resuscitation patients are mainly between 40 and 60 years old”, says Massimo Antonelli, head of the Emergency-Urgency department of the Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome and member of the Technical Scientific Committee: “The latest bulletin in Italy gives 55 patients assisted with mechanical ventilation. During the key months of the epidemic, those hospitalized in intensive care were mainly between 60 and 80 years old, today the age range is definitely lowering ».
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Young people in intensive care
He anticipated it yesterday, in the interview given to Courier service, Agostino Miozzo, coordinator of the CTS: «We also have young people in intensive care. Nobody is invulnerable ». It is a question of probability: “If many young people are infected, even a small number of them will become seriously ill”, reflects epidemiologist Pierluigi Lopalco, head of the regional task force of Puglia: “Five patients between 20 and 30 years in critical conditions “. Who, on the other hand, is ill and is hospitalized even without ending up in intensive care? “The average age is now around 50 years”, summarizes the Councilor for Health of Lombardy Giulio Gallera. All this is the consequence of the fact that the new positives – as evidenced by the Higher Institute of Health – are often less than 40 years old.
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Few symptoms, but contagious
Most have few symptoms, but they are contagious. Here then, perhaps, is the main problem of this unusual August: the underestimation of the young people of Covid-19. They are now contributing to the spread of the virus. So it is as if, in order to slow down the new wave of infections, it should be highlighted that only the elderly do not get sick and end up in intensive care. There should be no need, but unfortunately it is still necessary to remember that we are dealing with a cursed disease that when it strikes can hurt at any age.
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August 14, 2020 (change August 14, 2020 | 07:42)
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