Report on the characteristics of Covid-19 positive deceased patients in Italy [pdf]

Report on the characteristics of Covid-19 positive deceased patients in Italy [pdf]
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The mean age of deceased and positive COVID-19 patients is 79.5 years (median 80.5, range 31-103, RangeInterQuartile - IQR 74.3-85.9). There are 601 women (30.0%). The figure 1 shows that the median age of patients COVID-19 positive deaths is more than 15 years higher than that of patients who contracted the infection (median age: patients who died 80.5 years - patients with infection 63 years). The Figure 2 shows the number of deaths by age group. Women who died after contracting COVID-19 infection they are older than men (median ages: women 83.7 - men 79.5)

The Figure 4 shows the therapies administered in patients who died COVID-19 positive during hospitalization. ThereAntibiotic therapy was the most widely used (83% of cases), least used antiviral (52%), most rarely steroid therapy (27%). The common use of antibiotic therapy can be explained by presence of super infections or is compatible with initiation of empirical therapy in patients with pneumonia, pending laboratory confirmation of COVID-19. In 25 cases (14.9%) all 3 therapies were used.

The figure 5 shows, for the patients who died positive COVID-19, the median time in days, who spend from onset of symptoms to death (8 days), from onset of symptoms to hospitalization (4 days) and from hospitalization to death (4 days). The time elapsed from hospitalization to death was 1 day longer in those who were transferred to resuscitation than those who did not they were transferred (5 days against 4 days).

To date (17 March), 17 COVID-19 positive patients have died under the age of 50. In particular,5 of these had fewer than 40 and were all male people aged between 31 and i39 years with serious pre-existing pathologies (cardiovascular, renal, psychiatric pathologies, diabetes, obesity).