Covid today Italy, Iss: “Average death age 80, higher for vaccinated”

The average age of people who died and positive for Covid in Italy is 80 years. Most were hospitalized but not in intensive care and the vaccinated deceased have a higher average age and more pre-existing diseases than those not vaccinated. This is what emerges from the update of the Report on deaths, based on data from the integrated surveillance and on a sample of medical records of patients who died with Sars-Cov-2 positivity, just published by the ISS. The report refers to 138,099 patients who died and positive for Sars-cov-2 in Italy from the start of surveillance to 10 January 2022. Read also Compared to the ‘unvaccinated’ deceased, both those with ‘incomplete vaccination cycles’ and deaths with ‘full course of vaccination’ (patients with ‘booster’ are not considered) had a significantly higher mean age (82.6 and 84.7 versus 78.6 respectively) .The mean number of pathologies observed is also significantly higher in the vaccinated groups with ‘incomplete vaccination course’ and ‘complete vaccination course’ compared to the ‘unvaccinated’ (respectively 5.0 and 4.9 versus 3.9 pre-existing diseases). , 23.8% were hospitalized in an intensive care unit, 58.5% were hospitalized but not in intensive care and 17.7% were not hospitalized, the ISS report again highlights.