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March 13, 2020 The lethality (understood as the number of deaths out of the total sick) of Covid-19 in Italy at the moment is 5.8%. This was stated in the report of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità on the characteristics of patients who died in Italy, just published on the Epicentro website.The average age of Covid-19 deceased and positive patients is 80 years, about 15 years higher than the positive ones and women are 28.4%. Covid-19 positive patients under the age of 40 were 2. It is 1 person of 39 years of age, male, with pre-existing psychiatric diseases, diabetes and obesity, who died at home and 1 person of 39 years of age, female, with pre-existing neoplastic diseases deceased in the hospital. Women who died after Covid-19 infection are older than men (median ages: women 84.2 - men 80.3) and lethality increases markedly after the age of 70.
"The lethality stratified by age groups is not higher than that of other countries - underlines Graziano Onder, director of the Department of cardiovascular, dysmetabolic and aging diseases -. We discount a very high average age and a significant percentage of the population that has more pathologies, a factor that increases the risk of death. It is no coincidence that the average number of pathologies observed in the deceased is 2.7 ".
In men, lethality is higher, 7.2%, while in women it is 4.1%. The difference in the number of cases reported by gender increases progressively in favor of male subjects up to the age group 70-79. In the age group 90 years the number of female cases exceeds that of male cases probably due to the demographic structure of the population.