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

Iván Area, Henrique Lorenzo, Pedro J. Marcos and Juan J. Nieto
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Iván Area: Universidade de Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain
Henrique Lorenzo: Research Center in Technologies, Energy and Industrial Processes CINTECX, GeoTECH Research Group, Universidade de Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain
Pedro J. Marcos: Dirección Asistencial, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Universidade da Coruña, Sergas, 15006 A Coruña, Spain
Juan J. Nieto: Instituto de Matemáticas, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 10, 1-14

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; new infected; hospital admissions; intensive care unit admission; deceased (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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