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In February 2020, Italy has been the first country in Europe fighting against COVID-19. In March 2020, Italian government declared national lockdown. Until May 4th, people stayed in home confinement and only the so-called essential works and activities were continued. Like in other countries, both for the disease severity and for the risk of death, the higher the age of people the higher the risk. In the first months of 2020, Italy saw a very high number of deaths related to COVID-19, with a huge age effect. There is an agreement on the view that there had been also an excess of mortality and on the role of mortality as a correct way to reflect the dynamics of the virus's spread. In this paper we briefly discuss the trends of mortality during the first 4 months of 2020 according to the data by the Italian National Institute of Statistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author comments on a research paper on the prevalence, incidence and mortality of delirium in the COVID-19 disease, which references a study by S. C. Shao et al., published in a 2021 issue of "Age Ageing". Topics discussed include the characteristics of delirium, the challenges facing health professionals in managing delirium in patients with COVID-19, findings on its prevalence on admission and during hospitalization, and the study's implications for care for patients with delirium.