Covid-related hospitalizations down 37% in the last week, the largest drop in the last five weeks of negative trend. The latest survey by the Fiaso sentinel network shows a real collapse in hospitalized patients. It is the Federation of hospital companies itself that communicates this, specifying that the most evident data is the -44% that comes for those hospitalized ‘With Covid’, i.e. those who are in hospital for other causes but have tested positive for coronavirus.
Percentage decreasing by 25%, however, in hospitalizations ‘For Covid’, i.e. those who occupy beds in infectious diseases or in medicines with respiratory and pulmonary syndromes related to the Sars Cov-2 infection. The average age of the patients is 77 years and in 93% of cases these are subjects who also have other pathologies.
The most significant data (-75%) comes from the pediatric hospitals and pediatric departments of the sentinel hospitals monitored by the Federation. There are no children in intensive care and the very few hospitalizations continue to be concentrated in the 0-4 age group. “These data – comments the president of Fiaso, Giovanni Migliore – testify to a collapse in the viral circulation of Covid, which reached its peak over a month ago and is now decreasing rapidly. This is also happening with influenza viruses, with decreasing numbers in last two weeks.” The reduction in infections, he underlines, “is also confirmed by the collapse of cases in pediatric age groups, fortunately even the return to school has not favored infections. The problem in managing hospital beds continues to mainly concern the elderly.
When Covid hits these fragile people, with previous pathologies, who perhaps haven’t had the booster vaccine, it continues to hurt.”
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