Ninety-five percent of those who died from the coronavirus in hospitals in England reportedly had “serious” underlying conditions.
Sky News obtained coronavirus data from the United Kingdom’s National Health Service on Tuesday. While it was not possible to confirm if a patient had an underlying condition in only a small number of cases, the figures showed that nearly all of those “who have died with COVID-19 in hospitals in England” did.
“The data provided by NHS England shows that, as of 5pm on 26 April, 18,749 people had died in hospital with the virus,” Sky News reported. “Ninety-five percent were found to have serious preexisting issues. In patients over 80-years-old this figure was 96%, 60-79-years-old 95%, 40-59-years-old 88% and 20-39-years-old 82%.”
More than 21,000 people have died of the coronavirus in the U.K. The recent data does not include “hospital deaths in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, in the community or in care homes.”
The report mirrors some data from the United States, including in Massachusetts, where it was found that almost every coronavirus death “has been a patient with an underlying health condition or previous hospitalization.”
“Data from deaths following completed investigations indicate 98.1 percent (1,289) of people who died after contracting the disease had an underlying condition, such as chronic lung disease, serious heart ailments, obesity, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, or liver disease,” the Massachusetts report read.
