Why Covid-19 is so dangerous for older adults

Subject: Why Covid-19 is so dangerous for older adults Tue Mar 17, 2020 8:16 pm

Older people and people with chronic illness are at greater risk, and how we respond to the threat affects everyone.
By Umair Irfan and Julia Belluz Updated Mar 13, 2020, 1:13pm EDT
Even before the Covid-19 coronavirus reached more than 100 countries around the world, early data from China — where the outbreak started — suggested that older adults were the most vulnerable to the worst effects of the disease.
Now, that data, along with emerging research from Italy — the second-most-affected country in the world — is showing just how dangerous Covid-19 is for older people, and others with with heart, lung, and immunological conditions.
In Italy, a country with one of the world’s oldest populations, a March 4 analysis by the national health institute found that of the 105 patients who died from the virus, the average age was 81. This put a 20-year gap between the average age of people who tested positive for the virus and the deceased, the institute said. On Friday, an ICU physician in Lombardy — the epicenter of Italy’s outbreak — told JAMA there have been only two deaths of people under the age of 50.
This finding squared with some of the other best data on the risks of the new respiratory disease, from China’s Center for Disease Control. In a late February report, researchers looked at the first 72,314 patients with confirmed or suspected Covid-19 and discovered a huge variation in the case fatality rate by age group. In short, the disease appears to be deadlier in people with each passing decade.

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More: https://www.vox.com/2020/3/12/21173783/coronavirus-death-age-covid-19-elderly-seniors

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Why Covid-19 is so dangerous for older adults

Why Covid-19 is so dangerous for older adults

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