Green pass: this has been the magic word for months. The refrain we hear repeated every time we turn on the TV, browse a newspaper or browse social media. Certainly it does not take a genius to understand why a day does not pass in which more or less renowned experts relaunch the importance of the vaccine and increasingly put forward the hypothesis of making it mandatory.
The ratio? Minimize the most severe clinical pictures of Covid-19 infection, and consequently hospitalizations, to favor a complete resumption of os activitiespedal boards.
The price of the pandemic in fact, it goes far beyond the victims of the virus: to these must be added all those who have not had access in a timely manner to public health literally taken hostage by the epidemic.
To say it are the numbers, as demonstrated by the Report drawn up byState. In 2020, the total number of deaths was the highest ever recorded in our country since the second post-war period: 746,146, or 100,526 more than the 2015-2019 average (15.6% excess), a difference of + 112,000 compared to 2019 alone. , when there were 634 thousand dead. Of these 112 thousand, those directly attributable to Covid-19 and registered by the health authorities, are 75,891.
With regard to the remaining part of redundant deaths, equal to over 36 thousand, the authors of the Istat document write that the hypothesis is concrete that a part of these deaths may be attributable “to delayed and missed treatment due to an overloaded health system” .
In the province of Modena, in 2020 there were 8,447 deaths compared to 7,179 of the previous year: 1,268 cases in more than 986 attributable to Covid.
Covid has not canceled the other pathologies: cardiovascular diseases still represent the main cause of death in our country, followed by tumors. Hospital structures in trouble and the fear of the sick of getting infected have meant that many patients often arrive in hospital in very critical conditions. When it was too late. The account that this pandemic has presented to us so far is already too salty, between direct and indirect victims. Covid-19 has shown in the most dramatic way all the flaws in our health system, starting with a deficient territorial medicine: we can no longer afford such paralysis. The price to pay, in terms of public health, would be incalculable.
Jessica Bianchi