LECCE – The virus managed to infiltrate the most protected point of the Lecce hospital, the Pediatrics of the “Vito Fazzi”, where, in the heavily armored wards and secured with a series of anticovid procedures, a doctor who was positive entered. Now it is a difficult time for the Lecce health system: dozens of children visited by the specialist ended up in quarantine, accesses and external examinations were blocked. A hard blow for the hospital that already struggles a lot to go on in the summer, with the number of admissions to the hospital and the emergency room increasing and the staff decreasing due to holidays.
“I am convinced that we are progressively moving towards the fourth wave – explains the president of the Order of Doctors, Donato De Giorgi – It’s not just tourists: the virus circulates in Salento. Everything suggests that the situation is less serious, because there are fewer hospitalized thanks to vaccination, but the wave goes on and we hope to stem it with an acceleration of vaccines. The risk is that other variants will develop capable of affecting the vaccinated more. The 50-year-olds are not getting vaccinated, but vaccines are capable of blocking circulation by slowing the development of other variants. With the covid I know that we will have to deal with it for another two years. The issue of Pediatrics in Lecce is very serious, because you work with a minimum of staff and when a doctor jumps everything goes haywire. I think it is right to block the department to stop the virus “.
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Of course, the doctor who is positive for the SARS-CoV-2 variant is vaccinated. Vaccines are used to stem the advance and prevent most people from suffering complications once they contract this new disease (to avoid intensive care), but they do not solve the problem of contagion in any case. By vaccinating more people, an attempt is made to slow down the course of the virus, preventing it from mutating again into even more aggressive forms.
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