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. 2021 May 12;18(10):5104.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph18105104.

One Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Galicia: A Global View of Age-Group Statistics during Three Waves

Iván Area  1 , Henrique Lorenzo  2 , Pedro J Marcos  3 , Juan J Nieto  4
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One Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Galicia: A Global View of Age-Group Statistics during Three Waves

Iván Area et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

In this work we look at the past in order to analyze four key variables after one year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Galicia (NW Spain): new infected, hospital admissions, intensive care unit admissions and deceased. The analysis is presented by age group, comparing at each stage the percentage of the corresponding group with its representation in the society. The time period analyzed covers 1 March 2020 to 1 April 2021, and includes the influence of the B.1.1.7 lineage of COVID-19 which in April 2021 was behind 90% of new cases in Galicia. It is numerically shown how the pandemic affects the age groups 80+, 70+ and 60+, and therefore we give information about how the vaccination process could be scheduled and hints at why the pandemic had different effects in different territories.

Keywords: SARS-CoV-2; deceased; hospital admissions; intensive care unit admission; new infected.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Daily count of newly infected individuals in Galicia since the beginning of the pandemic (raw data). Vertical grid lines separate each week and note Sundays to point out the “weekend effect”: most of them correspond to local minima in daily new infected values.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Newly infected individuals (a), admissions to hospitals (b), admissions to intensive care units (c) and deceased (d) in Galicia since the beginning of the pandemic, by considering age groups and means of the seven previous days.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Percentages of newly infected (a), admissions to hospitals (b), admissions to intensive care units (c) and deceased (d) in Galicia since the beginning of the pandemic, by considering age groups and means of the seven previous days.
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Figure 4
Newly infected (a), admissions to hospitals (b), admissions to intensive care units (c) and deceased (d) in Galicia for every 100,000 individuals of each group since the beginning of the pandemic, by considering age groups and means of the seven previous days.
Figure 5
Figure 5
Percentages of 80+ among newly infected (a), admissions to hospitals (b), admissions to intensive care units (c) and deceased (d) in Galicia since 1st January 2021 for the age group 80+.
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