Rome, 13 March 2020, Agenzia Nova:  “Coronavirus: ISS [Italian National Institute of Health]: in Italy, there are only two deaths ascertained so far due to Covid-19”    (Italian,    English)

“There may be only two people who died from coronavirus in Italy, who did not present other pathologies. This is what emerges from the medical records examined so far by the Higher Institute of Health, according to what was reported by the President of the Institute [Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Italian National Institute of Health], Silvio Brusaferro, during the press conference held today at the Civil Protection agency in Rome.

‘Positive deceased patients have an average of over 80 years – 80.3 to be exact…The majority of these people are carriers of chronic diseases. Only two people were not presently carriers of [other non-COV] diseases’, but even in these two cases, the examination of the files is not concluded and therefore, causes of death different from Covid-19 could emerge. The president of the ISS has specified that ‘little more than a hundred medical records’ have so far come from hospitals throughout Italy.”

“…At present, in fact, the authorities are unable to distinguish those who died from the virus, from those who, on the other hand, are communicated daily to the public, but who were mostly carriers of other serious diseases and who, therefore, would not have died from Covid-19. In response to a question from ‘Agenzia Nova’, in fact, Brusaferro was unable to indicate the exact number of coronavirus deaths. However, the professor clarified that, according to the data analyzed, the vast majority of the victims ‘had serious [non-COV] pathologies and in some cases the onset of an infection of the respiratory tract can lead more easily to death.’ To clarify this point, and provide real data, ‘as we acquire the folders we will go further. However, the populations most at risk are fragile carriers of multiple diseases’.”

In plain English that any 19-yr-old in NE Ohio can understand: the people dying here in Italy have other fairly serious diseases that have nothing to do with Covid-19, and it’s obvious they could have died, and probably did die, from those other diseases.

So there must be a political reason for locking everyone in their houses, and fining those miscreants who go jogging in the park 250 euro, for “risking the lives of 700,000 Torinese residents”.

I welcome your comments.