{"id":13957,"date":"2020-08-11T05:15:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T05:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=13957"},"modified":"2020-08-11T05:15:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T05:15:08","slug":"west-bengal-corona-news-sharp-spike-in-covid-19-deaths-with-co-morbid-link-in-west-bengal-kolkata-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=13957","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal Corona News: Sharp spike in Covid-19 deaths with co-morbid link in West Bengal | Kolkata News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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KOLKATA: An overwhelming majority of Covid<\/a> deaths that occurred in the past two months in Bengal<\/a> have been associated with co-morbidities, according to data released by the health department<\/a>. The percentage of Covid victims with co-morbidities<\/a> has shot up from 65.6% on June 8 to 88.5% on August 9. The share of patients without co-morbidities dying of Covid, on the other hand, has dropped sharply from 34.4% to just 11% over this period, the data shows confirming experts\u2019 assumption that those with co-morbidities are more susceptible to a fatal Covid attack.
While the number of Covid deaths in Bengal has increased sharply in the past two months \u2014 the toll has gone from 405 on June 8 to 2,059 on August 9 \u2014 the Covid fatality rate, that is deaths compared to all people who have tested positive, has dropped to 2.1% from 4.7% in the same period. The figures reinforce the fact that the disease has been far more severe in patients with co-morbidities in these two months. <\/p>\n
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Co-morbidities raise risk of death in all subsets of patients all over the globe and is not Bengal-specific, says Belle Vue Clinic<\/a> internal medicine expert Rahul Jain. \u201cThere is a complex interplay between the host factors and the virus which cannot be pinpointed to one specific thing. Co-morbidities like diabetes, ischemic heart disease and hypertension may lead to death, need for oxygen therapy, ventilation and longer hospital stay,\u201d Jain said.
Belle Vue Clinic internal medicine expert Rahul Jain. He added that various organ systems work in harmony and specifically the kindeys, heart and lungs have a complex interplay with each other. \u201cOne system getting affected affects the other organs by way of complex interactions. Multi-organ dysfunctional state is a result of loss of the fine homeostasis of the body,\u201d he said.
According to the detailed report on Covid deaths that is released by the state health department daily, hypertension, cardiac ailments and chronic kidney diseases are the common co-morbid factors in Covid deaths. Surprisingly, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), patients on dialysis and even those with malignancy – people who are believed to be severely compromised and more at Covid risk, have shown a much higher recovery rate.
This is surprising since lungs, heart and kidneys have the most Covid receptors and patients with ailments affecting these organs are likely to be most susceptible, pointed out AMRI Hospital consultant Debashish Saha. \u201cCOPD and kidney patients have been among the most affected as per our hospital records,\u201d Saha said.
Last Sunday\u2019s datasheet indicates that this \u2018other\u2019 factor is on a steady decline. Hypertension and cardiac ailments are now the primary co-morbid factors in most Covid deaths. <\/div>\n

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KOLKATA: An overwhelming majority of Covid deaths that occurred in the past two months in Bengal have been associated with co-morbidities, according to data released by the health department. The percentage of Covid victims with co-morbidities has shot up from 65.6% on June 8 to 88.5% on August 9. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1597122916_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}