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More young coronavirus patients being admitted to hospital, doctor warns
Zoe Tidman
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Italians admitted to hospital for coronavirus are getting younger, a health official has claimed.

“The type of patient is changing,” Luca Lorini, the head of anaesthesia and intensive care at a northern Italian hospital, has said.

“They are a bit younger, between 40 to 45 years old and the cases are more complicated.”

Dr Lorini, who works at a hospital in Bergamo, told radio programme RaiNews24: ”People are arriving who got ill six or seven days ago and treated themselves at home – and then their conditions became more and more critical.”

Twelve per cent of those who have been treated in intensive care are aged between 19 and 50, according to official figures released last week. Around 52 per cent are between 51 and 70 years old, with the rest all over 70.

Recently, hospitals in Lombardy have seen people aged between 25 and 50 diagnosed with Covid-19 and subsequently hospitalised for treatment, according to local media reports.

“Even if the data is only preliminary, the fact there are more young people hospitalised and in intensive care compared to the first wave can be interpreted as a natural phenomenon,” Pierluigi Lopalco, a professor from Pisa University, told Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera.

“In Italy, the first clusters of the infection started around hospitals, more commonly frequented by older people, and in small towns,” he said.

“Now the virus has spread, it is travelling around the whole country way more and it is younger people, with lots of social contact, that are more at risk of contracting the disease if they do not stick to the rules of social distancing.”

The whole of Italy has been placed in lockdown as confirmed cases of Covid-19 have soared.

More than 1,400 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in Europe’s worst-hit country, with 21,157 infections to date.

Coronavirus – a flu-like disease which can develop into pneumonia – has been called a pandemic by the World Health Organisation.

No hype, just the advice and analysis you need

New York has over 3,000 cases now. Is public transportation still allowed to run???

I don't know how many are serious, but hopefully Korts can tell us of public transportation is still operating in NYC. If it is and continues to be I wonder if states shouldn't close their borders to each other. European nations are closing their borders to each other for a reason. If certain states become hotbeds for the virus it would make sense to isolate them from other states.

President Trump said the elderly should stay indoors and people should "avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people"

Old people like, "Screw you, Trump. We survived Vietnam, AIDS, Malaria, the LA riots, and Hurricane Katrina. We ain't 'fraida catchin' no cold."

Probably 9.5 out of 10 seniors will die of old age this year rather than from bat flu.

That should be its handle. Bat Flu. Perhaps even Batshit Flu.

Maybe Batman will kill all the bats in the cave :/

Or maybe Batman was the one who started it all, prone to both human and bat diseases...