Analysis of Diseases in the Elderly Affecting Covid-19

Abstract

Covid-19 virus began in December 2019, and the coronavirus (COVID-19) has impacted several countries, affecting more than 90,000 patients and making it a global pandemic. Where health workers include doctors, nurses, and other health workers, play a role in treating infected patients and become the vanguard in the handling of coronavirus. Based on data Indonesia positive cases of Covid-19 as many as 3,872,738 people and patients recovered 3,381,884 people and patients who died as many as 118,883 people and 48.3% of the cases of COVID-19 patients in Indonesia are elderly. The actual SARS-CoV-2 outbreak caused a highly transmissible disease with a tremendous impact on elderly people. This study focused on very elderly patients (over 80 years old) was created with the aim of analyzing the relationship of some diseases in the elderly that affect covid-19 at Royal Prima Hospital Medan in 2020, And the conclusion of this study based statistically shows that there is no link between DM, heart and kidney diseases in the elderly that affect covid-19, as well as the presence of hypertensive disease and ARI in the elderly that affects covid-19.