Coronavirus: call the 118 only with fever and shortness of breath

There are more cases of people infected by the coronavirus and waiting to see the effects of 14 days of containment, the appeal is to protect those more fragile: the elderly. Them are the victims most exposed to the coronavirus, in a country that has record levels in Europe over 65: are 35% of the population. Appeal clear, repeated several times by the president of the Institute of Health Silvio Brusaferro that in the course of the press conference with the Civil Protection reiterates the need to not expose them to contacts. The concern of epidemiologists and institutions is to manage the emergency, but also to give clearer information as possible to help people understand how to behave in order not to create chaos and not to fall into psychosis. Are in trouble (which in medical term is called dyspnea) and fever early symptoms more common in patients positive to the Covid-19, which die, and if you have set you should alert the 112, or 118, says the analysis of data from 155 Italian patients who died march 6, conducted by the Higher Institute of Health. Fever and dyspnea are present, such as symptom onset, respectively in 86% and 82% of the cases examined, reads the note on the Iss. Other initial symptoms encountered were cough (50%), diarrhea, and hemoptysis, that is coughing up blood (5%).