GREECE: Why do young people die from coronavirus?

The intubated people aged 18-39 have more than doubled since June - Four dead 28 to 34 years in a week - Danger signal for the unvaccinated - "They would have been saved, they were late to come", says the commander of the Trikala hospital
The price that our country pays in human lives due to the coronavirus is becoming heavier and heavier. The loss of four people aged 28 to 34, in Trikala, Achaia and Komotini, in the last week has shocked and troubled the medical world as well as public opinion, as these young people ended up with the infection. Covid-19 and its complications although they could have been vaccinated and avoided infection and serious illness.

Dozens of deaths every day are a sad routine in the epidemiological report of the National Organization of Public Health (EODY), especially in the last period that while it is available to everyone and in any convenient way (vaccinations in vaccination centers, at home, in private clinics, with mobile units) the "scientific gift" of the vaccine, this is not utilized.

40% of the general population remains unvaccinated in our country, which allows the coronavirus to circulate widely and is responsible for hundreds of admissions of patients with infection Covid-19 in hospitals. The low vaccination coverage is associated by experts with the increased incidence of coronary heart disease, hospitalizations and deaths that are eventually recorded in various parts of the country.

Northern Greece with the generally low vaccination rate is the region with the most deaths throughout the epidemic, with no significant reduction in their rate even after the "Eleftheria" vaccination campaign. The flow of patients to the hospitals of the northern country is recorded with almost the same intensity during this period, as it was recorded during the previous epidemic waves, because the few vaccinations did not allow a satisfactory wall of immunity to be built in the population.

According to the data available to protothema.gr, about 6.100 deaths have been recorded in Macedonia and Thrace since the beginning of the epidemic. In Attica, where about half of the country's population is concentrated and with moderate vaccination coverage, from 43% in Western Attica to 70% in the northern part of Athens, the death toll is around 5.370.

The loss of young people

That the coronavirus can become very threatening or even fatal in cases of infection of young people had been pointed out early by experts.

As of last June, 89 people aged 18-39 had died in hospitals due to coronary heart disease. From last July until yesterday the number of patients who ended up in this age group increased by 24%. Indicative of the "invasion" of the corona even in young people, especially the unvaccinated, is that the intubated people aged 18-39 years have more than doubled since June. Yesterday, according to EODY, 10 were intubated in the ICU when by the end of June they had not exceeded 4. This is a number that is obviously attributed to the moderate vaccination coverage of this age group.

In the age group of people 40-64 years the increase of intubated from summer is almost 100%. Yesterday, 149 people were hospitalized in the ICU when they were 75 about three months ago. An increase is also recorded in the deaths of this group. As of last June, 1.897 patients had been diagnosed with coronary artery disease and another 550 people have died since then.
Another 2.200 people over the age of 65 also ended up in the same period.

It is understood that from June until today, and while the vaccine is available and everyone can be shielded, about 20% of deaths have been recorded.

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