Tommaso Ebhardt and Marco Bertacche – Bloomberg May 26, 2020
The coronavirus outbreak in Italy has struck overwhelmingly among the nation’s older population and those with preexisting medical conditions, according to the national health authority.
Almost 96% of the country’s virus fatalities had previous medical conditions, data from Italy’s ISS health institute show. The ISS, which publishes a range of studies on the outbreak including a detailed weekly report, confirms a trend seen since the beginning of the emergency, with the average age of Italians who’ve died from the virus at around 80.
“The latest numbers show that new cases and fatalities have a common profile: mostly elderly people with previous illnesses,” ISS chief Silvio Brusaferro said at a news conference Friday.
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With over 32,000 deaths and more than 230,000 cases, Italy was the original European epicenter of the pandemic. The country began emerging from a nationwide lockdown on May 4, when about 4 million people went back to work.
Most shops, bars and restaurants were allowed to reopen two weeks later with distancing rules, and Italians are again allowed to travel freely — but only within their home regions.
The government has pledged to allow full free movement from June 3. But with some areas still seeing hundreds of new cases a day, Premier Giuseppe Conte may keep borders closed in the northern regions of Lombardy and Piedmont, newspapers including Corriere della Sera reported Tuesday.
Government officials and health experts also fear that young people may have gotten the message that they’re not at risk from the pathogen. After throngs of them gathered in squares and nightlife districts over the weekend, many not respecting rules on social distancing or use of masks, local officials have begun weighing moves to limit large groups. Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala banned sales of takeout drinks after 7 p.m.
Although the average age of virus cases is 62 years old, about 30% of those infected are under 50. Still, fatalities point to a wider generation gap. ISS analysis shows that as of May 25 only about 1.1% of virus fatalities have been under 50 years of age and more than 57% were over 80. Nearly half of new cases in May were registered at nursing homes.
Unexplained Deaths
The most recent ISS weekly study, based on a sample of about 10% of fatalities until May 21, also showed that just 124 victims, or 4.1% of the total, had no previous pathology. Almost 60% of victims suffered from at least three prior illnesses and about a fifth had two conditions.
More than 68% had high blood pressure, about 30% had diabetes and 28% suffered from heart disease, according to the report.
Official figures may not capture the full picture: many patients that died in their homes may not have been tested. Several studies have shown a surge in fatalities in the country, especially in the north, at a rate higher than what official Covid-19 figures indicate.
Italy had 11,600 more “unexplained” deaths in the first quarter compared with previous years, none of which were registered as Covid-19 fatalities, according to a joint report by ISS and national statistics office Istat.
Italy’s INPS social security administration also estimated 18,971 “excess” deaths in March and April, coming on top of official Covid-19-linked fatalities.
For ONCE Italy isw telling the truth!! and it is about time the rest of the Western World did so also!!…………Here in the UK the Z1on1st Media have whipped up a storm over this Psychological ”Warefare”……..It was THEY themselves on the first day that gave it away by calling it a WAR…………Thed REAL war is against the z1onist run media, ‘WHO’ & and the Z10nist run UN,
While I can not validate this, I have read that 81% of the deaths reported as caused by the virus in Canada represented deaths in NURSING HOMES! Older people with weak immune systems and other assorted problems from old age seem to be vulnerable to the virus. Overall, the numbers being reported in America are highly suspect and probably grossly overstated. This is all supported by the various main stream media outlets…….
likely all liars.
On the Truthseeker it is not necessary to use “z1on1st” etc….its not the Daily Mail which uses computer software to censor letters which in any way criticise Jews or Israhell…..
Its Brave New World in any British media…currently the Zio-BBC is doing its level best to be as biased as possible about Tommy Robinstein being sued by a Muslim schoolboy…..
The BBC will NEVER recover its previous reputation for impartiality….it is now so biased that it has become a joke…..its executive is FULL of crypto Jews.
Italy is NOT telling the truth. All they are saying here is that Covid victims had other diseases/illnesses. The real story as two Italian MPs alluded to is that 95% of Covid recorded deaths were fraudulently recorded deaths and that these deaths should have been attributed to regular causes of death such as heart attacks, cancer, and lung diseases which are especially high in Lombardy where pollution levels are very high. They are also big smokers, David Hockney says smoking protects against Covid infection and he might be right, but smoking and very high levels of urban pollution will make you more liable to contract a bad case of Covid. Hockney lives in the clean air of rural Normandy… lucky chap.
@British and PROUD
1. Actually, the British government had said something like this two months before, here it is!
Status of COVID-19
As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious diseases (HCID) in the UK.
The 4 nations public health HCID group made an interim recommendation in January 2020 to classify COVID-19 as an HCID. This was based on consideration of the UK HCID criteria about the virus and the disease with information available during the early stages of the outbreak. Now that more is known about COVID-19, the public health bodies in the UK have reviewed the most up to date information about COVID-19 against the UK HCID criteria. They have determined that several features have now changed; in particular, more information is available about mortality rates (low overall), and there is now greater clinical awareness and a specific and sensitive laboratory test, the availability of which continues to increase.
The Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) is also of the opinion that COVID-19 should no longer be classified as an HCID.
Reference and continuation:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid
And even more incredulous is the fact that the nationwide lockdown of its citizens in the UK happened some days after the UK’s own official proclamation that COVID-19 is not considered to be an HCID.
2. Anyway, data from Italy’s ISS health institute have always showed that mortality rates of COVID-19 is very low but Italian media mainstream to reinforce the nationwide lockdown of Italian citizens have always played on brainwashing Italian people that COVID-19 is a very dangerous and infectious diseases and you know why?
“There’s a sucker born every minute”, in fact, lot of gullible Italians have sucked the gigantic lies
of Italian media mainstream about COVID-19, mainly elderly, ignorant and naive Italian people, that’s it!!
3. Final Comment.
A. “Gazetteers ( journalists of media mainstream) either do not say true or do not say it whole”, old Italian proverb.
B. Politicians use statistics as a drunk man uses lamp-posts — for support rather than for illumination.
C. Three kinds of lies in political life: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Best regards.
Fabrice, greetings from Italy.
The People of the LIE by M. Scott Peck. Must read !!! And you will know what you are dealing with.
Important Update.
1. Covid, a group of Italian doctors to the Italian government: “Revoke the prudential measures, the factual assumptions are missing”
May 28, 2020
https://www.news1.news/en/2020/05/covid-a-group-of-doctors-in-the-government-revoke-the-prudential-measures-the-factual-assumptions-are-missing.html
The two most meaningful passages of the article:
Just spread alarming news.
Furthermore “we believe in the first place that it is necessary to clarify in a unique, clear and scientifically credible way that Covid-19 has proven to be an influenza form no more serious than the other seasonal coronaviruses: despite the WHO has declared the pandemic emergency the March 11, the official figures of the deceased, the infected and the healed contradict the very definition of ‘pandemic.’ It is necessary to give correct information and to provide criteria for understanding real data, avoiding that the media spread alarming news, in our opinion absolutely unjustified. The statistical trivialization of deaths is the synthesis of an institutional communication that has prevented, for the whole emergency and still today, from having a clear summary of the situation, leading to a vicious circle in terms of health measures and social impact “.
The truth about the victims.
Experts also wonder why continue with the “war bulletins” when in 98% of cases, as stated by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, the victims are elderly people with two or three more serious pre-existing diseases. If in the press releases only “the deceased for Covid, and only Covid, were given, what would be the deviation from the official averages in previous years for similar pathologies?”.
2. Brief comment.
It is also worth noting that this bombshell has not been given any kind of prominence on the Italian media mainstream, this is yet another confirmation that:
A. “Gazetteers ( journalists of media mainstream) either do not say true or do not say it whole”, old Italian proverb.
B. Politicians use statistics as a drunk man uses lamp-posts — for support rather than for illumination.
C. Three kinds of lies in political life: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Best regards.
Fabrice, greetings from Italy.