| haxxiy said: I wonder why Italy's age distribution continues to be so skewed toward older people having the virus, even as testing has increased? Extrapolating from the country's demographic data, that discrepancy would mean some 10,000 undetected cases among younger people, if it hasn't disproportionately targeted older people for whatever reason. Edit - case in point, more Italians between 80 - 89 died just today than all deaths since the beginning of the outbreak put together in South Korea, come on. |
Compared to other European countries, it could be that many older Italians still live with their families. In countries like Germany, as bad as it is, many old people don't live with their families. They live in nursing homes or simply alone and have almost no contact to other people.
If you have less social contacts or are in a closed environment, it obviously protects you a little bit more from a potential infection.
