The fear is that it will start over. And the circular from the Ministry of Health asking the Regions to strengthen hospitals in the coming weeks to deal with the sharp increase in the incidence does not reassure. Or, more optimistically, that we don’t want to be fooled again by unspecified numbers of patients. “In light of the current epidemic trend and in consideration of the further healthcare impacts on the hospital level potentially related to the greater spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, it is considered important to recommend to the Regions / Public Administrations. to face in the coming weeks an increase in the demand for health assistance linked to the infection, both at the hospital and territorial level, guaranteeing the adequate expansion of the Medical Area and Intensive Care beds dedicated to COVID, to be modulated according to contingent needs, and the correct and timely care of patients suffering from SARS-CoV-2 disease in relation to specific care needs, with particular reference to the most fragile categories “, reads the circular of the Ministry of Health.
Covid, the return of masks to curb infections
by Donatella Zorzetto
Sharp increase in incidence
The incidence is in fact increasing sharply and despite the Omicron variants are not considered particularly pathogenic it must be said that there are still many citizens who are not vaccinated, or stopped at the third dose taken months ago and therefore with decreasing protection. In addition, the mask is almost a memory and even very crowded events have started again. With relative sharp increase of an extremely contagious variant. “Despite the summer period in which many activities are carried out outdoors, an epidemic phase is confirmed on the national territory characterized by a strong increase in the incidence – reads the circular – in constant growth for 4 weeks already and which has reached 586 cases / 100,000 inhabitants, by an increasing transmissibility and above the epidemic threshold both calculated on symptomatic cases (mean Rt 1.30) and on hospitalized cases (Rt 1.22) and by an increase in the employment rates of beds in the medical area (9.2%, with a relative increase in the number of hospitalized patients by 22%) and in intensive care (2.5%, with a relative increase in the number of hospitalized patients by 13.6%) “.
Fourth dose Covid vaccine: who should do it now and why it is useless to wait for autumn
by Irma D’Aria
Fourth dose to the pole
Fourth doses to the stake, the ministry reminds “that the high vaccination coverage, the completion of vaccination cycles and the maintenance of a high immune response through the booster dose, with particular regard to the categories indicated by the ministerial provisions, represent necessary tools to mitigate the clinical impact of the epidemic “.
Covid, the peak of Omicron infections in mid-July
by Donatella Zorzetto
