Characteristics of COVID-19 patients dying in Italy
Shabir Moosa
See this interesting data on the characteristics of COVID-19 patients dying in Italy: concentrated in one region, Lombardia 68%, mostly >70yrs, with comorbidity of hypertension, diabetes and ischaemic heart disease, and presenting with fever (76%), dyspnoea (73%), cough (40%). They had 8 days from onset of symptoms to death.