“The age of our patients in hospitals is substantially older - the median is 67, while in China it was 46,” Prof Ricciardi says. “So essentially the age distribution of our patients is squeezed to an older age and this is substantial in increasing the lethality.”
A study in JAMA this week found that almost 40 per cent of infections and 87 per cent of deaths in the country have been in patients over 70 years old.
And according to modelling by Imperial College, London the majority of this age group are likely to need critical hospital care - including 80 per cent of 80-somethings - putting immense pressure on the health system.
But Prof Ricciardi added that Italy’s death rate may also appear high because of how doctors record fatalities.
“The way in which we code deaths in our country is very generous in the sense that all the people who die in hospitals with the coronavirus are deemed to be dying of the coronavirus.
In re-evaluation by the National Institute of Health, only 12 per cent of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus, while 88 per cent of patients who have died have at least one pre-morbidity - many had two or three,” he says.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-heal ... ied-italy/С което, подчертавам, по никакъв начин не искам да кажа, че КОВИД-19 е ала-бала.

Няма вирусна инфекция, която да е "алабала".
И нещо друго си мисля... ако това беше боен щам, щеше да е мазало отдавна. Е, тогава извънредно или военно положение щеше да е не просто желателно, а задължително. И разбира се, може да е създаден нарочно така и пуснат не да убива, а да създаде съответните реакции. Примерно. Но теориите за възникването му по-добре да се обсъждат, когато и ако отмине.
Между другото, не знам знаете ли, но свинския грип си върлува все още. И за него ваксина няма.
Даже тази година има смъртен случай в България:
https://www.segabg.com/category-bulgari ... -za-sezonaДесет години след появата му!