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The biggest problem is that the number of elderly infected with corona is increasing. In fact, the average mortality rate, which is the rate of death from corona, is 2.3% in all age groups, but it has surpassed the average from the 60s, and as you can see in the 70s and 80s, the fatality rate is skyrocketing. Quarantine authorities also classify elderly people over 65 as high-risk, but the key is how to lower this fatality rate.

This is Ahn Sang-woo.

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Richway, located in Gwanak-gu, Seoul, is a door-to-door sales company selling health care products to the elderly.

As a result, of the 153 confirmed patients from Richway, more than half of the aged aged 60 and over are 86.

In addition, most of the confirmed people related to the Sacred Heart Day Care Center in Dobong-gu, Seoul, which increased to 16 in three days.

The spread of infection in the metropolitan area is heading towards the elderly.

[Kwon Joon-wook/National Institute of Health Research: Trends that began in clubs and taverns have been gathered at workplaces, religious facilities, table tennis courts, etc., and eventually spread to nursing homes.] The

problem is that older people are more vulnerable to Corona 19.

The fatality rate, which is the rate at which confirmed patients die, is well below the average in their 50s, but those in their 80s and above are 10 times higher than the average.

[Eom Joong-Sik/Professor of Infectious Medicine, Gachon University: High-risk patients eventually need ventilators or equipment such as Ekmo, so it is possible even in a short period of time to have a severe patient's beds (

prevention ).] This is why it is necessary to prepare hospital beds and medical resources for the seriously ill as well as prevent infection in the elderly.

(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, video editing: Hwang Ji-young)