Covid, the number of patients in wards in Como hospitals tripled. The pressure on Sant’Anna is back

Covid, in city hospitals today there are 75 infected patients, not counting the sick in the emergency room. Exactly one month ago there were twenty. As we have now learned, after a prolonged rise in infections, even a small number of people suffer from symptoms that sometimes deserve to come to the attention of hospitals. The increase in positives has been sharp for a month now. The admissions in the medical area of ​​the Lombard hospitals alone have gone from 450 to 1,123 in the last thirty days, in our city the positives in the ward have more than tripled.

“We are about sixty infected patients, with about ten cases being evaluated arriving from the emergency room – explains Luigi Pusterla, head of infectious diseases of Asst Lariana – more than 90% are elderly, pluripathological patients, with the third dose done in December. It goes without saying that it is important to renew the vaccination. The hospital is holding up for now, but it is yet another load on a stressed system ». Sant’Anna and Valduce have limited the visits of relatives in the face of the increase in positivity. «We are 14 positive – says Riccardo Bertoletti, health director of Valduce – last month we had only one case. The increase is there and the concern too. To date, there are no serious repercussions on the functioning of the hospital, we are well trained. The problem is that many hospitalizations last longer than a week and the beds remain occupied. They are not serious patients, we do not see helmets for forced ventilation as before, it seems to be facing more serious flu. To end up in the hospital are frail elderly people who remained stuck at the third dose ».

For the frail and guests of the RSA, today we talk about the fifth dose. In Como, vaccinations in the last week have increased, at least for the fourth doses among the elderly, but coverage in the general population is still low. The return to life indoors, the sudden changes in temperature and the now forgotten anti-contagion rules according to doctors make it easier for the virus. Yesterday the infections traced in Como were 592, the positivity rate in Lombardy continues to fluctuate around 20%. The data are important in all the provinces, in Milan (+2.106), in Brescia (+943) as well as in Varese (+786). The transmissibility index is still in an expansive phase due to new subgroups of viral variants in circulation. The curve, however, does not grow as fast as it did until last week. Rather, the number of beds occupied by Covid cases in ordinary wards increased by another 22 units on the last day. While intensive care remains little touched.