COVID-19 and the excess of mortality in Italy from January to April 2020: What are the risks for oldest old?

In February 2020, Italy has been the first country in Europe fighting against COVID-19. In March 2020, Italian government declared national lockdown. Until May 4(th), people stayed in home confinement and only the so-called essential works and activities were continued. Like in other countries, both...

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Autores principales: Nicotra, Eraldo Francesco, Pili, Roberto, Gaviano, Luca, Carrogu, Gian Pietro, Berti, Roberta, Grassi, Paola, Petretto, Donatella Rita
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Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8874849/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34544221
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/jphr.2021.2399
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author Nicotra, Eraldo Francesco
Pili, Roberto
Gaviano, Luca
Carrogu, Gian Pietro
Berti, Roberta
Grassi, Paola
Petretto, Donatella Rita
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description In February 2020, Italy has been the first country in Europe fighting against COVID-19. In March 2020, Italian government declared national lockdown. Until May 4(th), people stayed in home confinement and only the so-called essential works and activities were continued. Like in other countries, both for the disease severity and for the risk of death, the higher the age of people the higher the risk. In the first months of 2020, Italy saw a very high number of deaths related to COVID-19, with a huge age effect. There is an agreement on the view that there had been also an excess of mortality and on the role of mortality as a correct way to reflect the dynamics of the virus’s spread. In this paper we briefly discuss the trends of mortality during the first 4 months of 2020 according to the data by the Italian National Institute of Statistics.
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spelling pubmed-88748492022-03-10 COVID-19 and the excess of mortality in Italy from January to April 2020: What are the risks for oldest old? Nicotra, Eraldo Francesco Pili, Roberto Gaviano, Luca Carrogu, Gian Pietro Berti, Roberta Grassi, Paola Petretto, Donatella Rita J Public Health Res Brief Report In February 2020, Italy has been the first country in Europe fighting against COVID-19. In March 2020, Italian government declared national lockdown. Until May 4(th), people stayed in home confinement and only the so-called essential works and activities were continued. Like in other countries, both for the disease severity and for the risk of death, the higher the age of people the higher the risk. In the first months of 2020, Italy saw a very high number of deaths related to COVID-19, with a huge age effect. There is an agreement on the view that there had been also an excess of mortality and on the role of mortality as a correct way to reflect the dynamics of the virus’s spread. In this paper we briefly discuss the trends of mortality during the first 4 months of 2020 according to the data by the Italian National Institute of Statistics. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2021-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8874849/ /pubmed/34544221 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/jphr.2021.2399 Text en ©Copyright: the Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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COVID-19 and the excess of mortality in Italy from January to April 2020: What are the risks for oldest old?
title COVID-19 and the excess of mortality in Italy from January to April 2020: What are the risks for oldest old?
title_full COVID-19 and the excess of mortality in Italy from January to April 2020: What are the risks for oldest old?
title_fullStr COVID-19 and the excess of mortality in Italy from January to April 2020: What are the risks for oldest old?
title_full_unstemmed COVID-19 and the excess of mortality in Italy from January to April 2020: What are the risks for oldest old?
title_short COVID-19 and the excess of mortality in Italy from January to April 2020: What are the risks for oldest old?
title_sort covid-19 and the excess of mortality in italy from january to april 2020: what are the risks for oldest old?
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8874849/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34544221
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/jphr.2021.2399
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