Throughout their hospitalization, many elderly patients were maintained on nutrient intakes far less than their estimated maintenance energy requirements, which may contribute to an increased risk of mortality. Given the difficulties reversing established nutritional deficits in the elderly, greater efforts should be made to prevent the development of such deficits during hospitalization.

Public health restrictions were not fully relaxed between national lockdown 1 and national lockdown 2. Regional restrictions remained in place during December 2020 and a third national lockdown started on 6 January 2021. (A) Chlamydia diagnoses and tests; (B) gonorrhoea diagnoses and tests; (C) infectious syphilis diagnoses and tests. Infectious syphilis includes primary, secondary and early latent stages. Different scales are used on the y-axes of the graphs above.