TY - ICOMM

T1 - Setting ourselves up for failure

T2 - a pandemic of our own making

AU - Di Nucci, Ezio

N1 - Journal of Medical Ethics Blog, May 26 (2020)

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic is of our own making – but maybe not in the way you think. Let me explain why, taking Italy as case study. COVID-19 overwhelmingly kills vulnerable people, older or chronic multi-morbidity patients: the mean age of COVID-19 fatalities in Italy according to the most recent data was 80 (median age 81). Around 60% of fatalities had three or more co-morbidities, around 36% had one or two co-morbidities and only 4% had no co-morbidity and only 14 out of 31,096 fatalities in the latest report were both under the age of 40 and had no-comorbidity – that’s 0,04%...

AB - The COVID-19 pandemic is of our own making – but maybe not in the way you think. Let me explain why, taking Italy as case study. COVID-19 overwhelmingly kills vulnerable people, older or chronic multi-morbidity patients: the mean age of COVID-19 fatalities in Italy according to the most recent data was 80 (median age 81). Around 60% of fatalities had three or more co-morbidities, around 36% had one or two co-morbidities and only 4% had no co-morbidity and only 14 out of 31,096 fatalities in the latest report were both under the age of 40 and had no-comorbidity – that’s 0,04%...

M3 - Net publication - Internet publication

PB - BMJ Publishing Group

ER -