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Italian doctors are examining how 90-year-olds can be infected with the coronavirus more easily than younger people. The daily Corriere della Sera wrote that when they approached the hundred they seem “indestructible”.
The newspaper emphasizes that in Italy during the pandemic, the mortality rate of men aged 70-79 has increased by 50 percent compared to previous years. There have been significantly fewer deaths due to coronavirus infection among people over the age of 90.
Corriere della Sera writes that doctors are currently fascinated by the question of whether such elderly people – up to 100 years of age or even older – are more protected from the “COVID-19 fury” compared to 70 and 80-year-olds. This hypothesis, as claimed, has not yet been thoroughly researched scientifically.
For now, more information is coming from many countries around the world about people in very advanced age who have recovered in an extraordinary way. In Italy, a 19-year-old woman has just been cured of COVID-106.
One of the doctors from Genoa wants to test the blood of a 102-year-old woman who has recovered. “Perhaps, as the doctor quoted in the journal explained, she has encountered so many viruses during her long life that her immune system is more prepared for COVID-19.”
An Italian phenomenon is the town of Ogliastra in Sardinia, considered “the land of centenarians” because of the longevity of its people. No infections were recorded there.
It’s as if people turning 90 are indestructible, experts say.
Professor Marco Trabucchi, president of the Italian association of psychogeriatrics, explained it as follows: ‘They are the survivors of a phenomenon known as the’ harvest ‘. It means that the weak ones die and only the stronger ones remain; not only physically but also mentally ».
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