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January 31, 2021 There are 50 thousand deaths from Covid in Italy during the second wave of the epidemic.

According to the ISS report on the characteristics of deceased patients, updated to January 27, there have been 49,274 victims of the virus since October: the toll of the first wave, from March to May 2020, when the deaths were 34,278.

In the intermediate phase, the summer one from June to September, the deaths were 1,837.



Between the first and second waves, the report shows, the regional distribution changed: if in the first phase, which mainly overwhelmed the North, in Lombardy there were even 47.7% of total victims, in this second the percentage drops at 19.7, one in five.

Followed by Veneto, with 13.2% of deaths, Emilia Romagna with 9.7%, Piedmont with 8% and Lazio with 7.6%.     



As for the characteristics of the deceased, the average age is 81 years.

37,295 women died (43.7%).

The median age of SARS-CoV-2 positive deceased patients is more than 30 years higher than that of infected patients.

The average age of weekly deaths increased substantially up to 85 years (1 week of July) and then dropped slightly.



Deaths (1.1%) under the age of 50

There are 941, of the total 85,418 (1.1%), deaths from Covid in Italy under the age of 50.

This is what emerges from the ISS report on the characteristics of deceased patients, updated on January 27th.

In particular, 234 of these were under the age of 40 (138 men and 96 women aged between 0 and 39).

No clinical information is available from 52 patients under 40 years of age;

of the other patients, 147 had serious pre-existing pathologies (cardiovascular, renal, psychiatric pathologies, diabetes, obesity) and 35 had not been diagnosed with significant pathologies.



66.3% deaths had 3 or more pathologies

Overall, 196 patients (3.1% of the sample) had 0 pathologies, 772 (12.1%) had 1 pathology, 1185 (18.6%) had 2 pathologies and 4,228 ( 66.3%) had 3 or more pathologies, notes the ISS.

This data was obtained from 6381 deceased for whom it was possible to analyze the medical records.

The medical records are sent to the ISS by the hospitals according to different times, compatibly with the priorities of the activities carried out in the hospitals themselves.

The sample is therefore of an opportunistic type, it only represents the deaths in subjects who have needed hospitalization, and the Regions are represented trying to maintain a proportionality with respect to the number of deaths.



In 85.9% of cases antibiotic

therapy was

more used Antibiotic

therapy was commonly used during hospitalization (85.9% of cases), steroid therapy less used (53.3%), antiviral therapy more rarely (46.4 %).

This is what the ISS notes in its report 'Characteristics of patients who died positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection in Italy'. The common use of antibiotic therapy can be explained by the presence of superinfections or is compatible with the initiation of empirical therapy in patients with pneumonia, awaiting laboratory confirmation of SARS-CoV-2.

In 1444 cases (23.1%) all 3 therapies were used.

4.0% of SARS-CoV-2 positive deaths received Tocilizumab as therapy.



108,000 healthcare workers infected

There are 108,104 Covid cases among healthcare workers in Italy since the beginning of the pandemic, 11,766 those registered in the last 30 days.

These are the integrated surveillance data published by the National Institute of Health and updated as of January 30th.

In general, 367,374 cases have been recorded in the last month, out of more than 2.5 million infections since the beginning of the emergency.