From today's Corriere Della Sera (google translate):
- Coronavirus can severely affect even the youngest . Statistics show that Lombardy, the region with the most cases of contagion: of the 440 most serious patients admitted to intensive care on 9 March, 8% are between 25 and 49 years old, 33% between 50 and 64, the 37% between 65 and 74, 22% over 75 years.
- Those who are young have more weapons to fight the virus : the Resuscitation treatment involves shock therapies (with cocktails of antiviral drugs, antibiotics and, experimentally, those used to treat HIV) easier to bear for who does not have a physique already weakened.
- For the treatment to be successful, a combination of three factors must work : vital therapies (hydration, artificial feeding, etc.); treatments with the experimental drug cocktail; the absence of subsequent complications (to be avoided with anti-thrombosis prophylaxis, tests to detect the occurrence of bacterial overinfections of the lungs, etc.).
- A significant contribution to the chances of recovery gives it the absence of other pathologies : it means that, in addition to the lungs, the other organs work well. - In a young physique, it is more difficult for problems during treatment to other organs such as the heart, liver and kidneys.
- Critical but stable conditions are a good sign : "Patient One" had to stay in therapy for almost three weeks. This for doctors is a sign of how the virus evolves: the worsening is rapid, there is a long phase of stabilization, then the beginning of the improvement. Mattia is now in the sub-intensive care unit of San Matteo and is in the phase that doctors call weaning, in which the shock therapies are gradually suspended. His breathing is autonomous and semi-conscious. From Mojoli and Bruno a clarification: "The" Patient One "is the symbol of the fact that Coronavirus can be healed even in very serious conditions - they say -. But for us all patients are like "Patient One" ».
Originally Posted by: xioni2