Fourth week of Covid hospitalizations decreasing in hospitals. The latest survey by the Fiaso sentinel network, relating to the first week of 2024, marks a 22% decrease in hospitalized patients. “The decline in Covid hospitalizations is now confirmed, but the pressure on hospitals shows no sign of decreasing due to the flu”, explains the president of Fiaso, Giovanni Migliore. “Unfortunately we are seeing serious pneumonia not due to Covid but to the consequences of the flu even in intensive care. We must still be cautious because in the coming weeks we will also see the effects of the reopening of schools on hospitals”, he added.
The most significant drop (-27%) comes for those hospitalized ‘with Covid’, patients in hospital for other causes but who tested positive for coronavirus, a sign of a reduction in the viral circulation of Covid19. To a lesser extent, the decline also occurred in hospitalizations ‘for Covid’, -10% among those who occupy beds in infectious diseases or in medicines with respiratory and pulmonary syndromes related to SARS COV-2 infection. The average age of the patients is 77 years and in almost all cases they are subjects with other pathologies that aggravate the clinical picture.
The number of Covid patients hospitalized in intensive care also decreased by 27%. Their incidence on the total goes from 6 to 5.5%, in absolute terms these are few cases per hospital and here too the profile is that of patients with an average age of 70 years with other pathologies.
The data collected by the Italian Federation of Health and Hospital Companies indicate that in pediatric hospitals or in the pediatric departments of sentinel hospitals, children’s Covid hospitalizations are decreasing by 15%, there are no children in intensive care and hospitalizations continue to concentrate in the age between 0-4 years.
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