«Over 70% of Italians over 12 have completed the planned vaccination cycle. It is an important result that has been achieved thanks to the commitment of many. A special thought to the women and men of the National Health Service and to all the volunteers who, even during the summer, carried out one of the greatest challenges that our country has had to face ». The Minister of Health writes it, Roberto Speranza, in a post on Facebook.
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Ricciardi: “Third dose to the elderly and frail by autumn”
“We are observing that the elderly and frail people, vaccinated in January and February, are running out of protection. These people find themselves vulnerable again and need to be re-protected. We must start with them, with the people who were vaccinated first and most fragile ». So to Good morning, on Sky TG24, Walter Ricciardi, advisor to the Minister of Health, about vaccination with the third dose, stressing that “by the autumn it should be leaving, first of all for these people and then slowly there is also the problem of health workers, vaccinated between January and February”.
«The strategic objective – adds Ricciardi – is to vaccinate the vast majority of Italians within the year. At the moment we are at 71%, we must exceed the 80% quota, which is the minimum objective to guarantee some security to the country, but the optimal one would be 90%. We must therefore implement all the persuasive tools, we must meet all those who still do not have a vaccination, for example by strengthening the ability of general practitioners to reach their patients who may be in disadvantaged areas or are afraid of vaccination and must be convinced one by one. Only in this way will we be able to avoid thousands of deaths ». And on the obligation of the vaccine: “I am not against the obligation to vaccinate, but it is a political choice”.
“Our health system – he adds – was able to withstand when there were 60 million vulnerable people, it is able to manage the 18 million today. It is clear that the State should also pose the problem for those who are afraid to get vaccinated and strongly encourage them, as it is doing with the green pass, or by introducing the obligation, but this is a political choice “. In general, without vaccine, Ricciardi points out, with the Delta variant “those who are not vaccinated have an almost certain probability of being infected and unfortunately, as a study published the day before yesterday by the British tells us, doubles the chance of dying “.
Covid in Italy, intensive care still on the rise
Alessandro Vergallo, national president of the Italian hospital anesthetists association (Aaroi-Emac), takes stock of the Covid situation in Italy to the microphones of beraking latest news Salute: “We will see an increase in cases in intensive care for a few more weeks, but it is really difficult to do of the forecasts for the autumn because there are too many factors at stake ». Sicily, already in the yellow zone, “is the region with the worst numbers as regards intensive hospitalizations of Covid patients” but also Sardinia “risks the yellow zone”.
“On a national scale – continues Vergallo – the average occupancy of beds in resuscitation is 6% and that for non-critical areas at 7%”, where the maximum thresholds, set by the new parameters for the transition to the yellow zone, are 10% and 15% respectively. One of the “critical” points, according to the anesthesiologists, “is the real number of Covid ICU beds available today, we think that in recent months they have been reduced to bring them back to ordinary management”.
But what will happen in the coming months in resuscitation? “It is difficult to imagine it – remarks the national president of the Italian hospital resuscitators Association – there are many factors: the most contagious variants, the effectiveness of vaccines and their duration, the spread of the infection, the reopening of schools and of all work activities. So – he concludes – imagining today what the effect of these factors will be on hospitals is very difficult ».
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