The increase in infections from Covid-19 is once again worrying. More from the point of view of the management of health services than from the strictly clinical one. If on the one hand, in fact, with the increase in infections there is also a slight increase in the forms of pneumoniaon the other hand, lethality appears to have subsided.
The numbers
There are 71,947 coronavirus infections in Italy registered as of 3 July 2022, according to Covid numbers and data – region by region – in the Civil Protection and Ministry of Health bulletin. 57 dead recorded. One million current positives have been exceeded in Italy: in total they are 1,009,943. Cases were identified on 262,557 swabs, the positivity rate is 27.4%. Covid patients admitted to hospital wards are 7,212 (+177). In intensive care, there are 291 patients (+16).
Pneumonia, the situation
“There is a slight increase in Covid pneumonia in these weeks” of the rise in the contagion curve “but they are quite light forms, which resolve in a few days and very few patients need resuscitation”. So at beraking latest news Salute Massimo Andreonihead of infectious disease at the Tor Vergata Polyclinic in Rome and scientific director of the Italian Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (Simit), taking stock of the situation of Covid hospitalizations.
“On average, we find these pneumonia in elderly and frail subjects, even in vaccinated people, but today this is normal since we are now over 90% of Italians who are immunized and cured”, recalls Andreoni. On the growth of reinfections “the feeling is that the immunity given by the vaccine and by reinfection provides an excellent protective ‘booster’let’s say that whoever is vaccinated and turns out to be positive has this little consolation ”, concludes the head physician.
“Today out of 10 people who are hospitalized, as many as 8-9 have no symptoms compatible with Sars-CoV-2 infection”. So at beraking latest news Salute Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic at the San Martino Polyclinic in Genoa, while Italy records an increase in COVID infections, also driven by the Omicron 5 variant, and an increase in hospitalizations. “80-90% of hospitalizations are for positivity, but they are asymptomatic or paucisymptomatic. Therefore, the patients to date who enter with interstitial or bilateral pneumonia, with a challenging picture, are less than 10-15%, ”says Bassetti.