The situation in the emergency rooms is “nightmarish” and the hospital wards are “under siege”. This is stated by Federation of Oncologists, Cardiologists and Hematologists (Foce) underlining that the cause is the vaccination campaign “completely inadequate against Covid and flu”.
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For several weeks, explains Foce, we have been witnessing the phenomenon of worsening chaos in our emergency systems, with many hundreds of patients awaiting transfer to ordinary hospitalization or intensive care departments.which can even last several days. The main cause of this situation, the experts point out, is “certainly the combination of the acute conditions produced simultaneously by the Covid infection and the flu” and what makes “extremely worrying is the progressive increase in mortality from Covid: in 2023, from 40-50 deaths per week in July/August went to 150 deaths in October, 290 in November, 425 at the end of December to reach, in 2024, 371 in this last week”. The point, warns Foce, is that “we have witnessed a total removal of SarsCoV-2. As a result, the vaccination campaign was completely unsatisfactory.
From the start of the campaign to January 4, 2024, just 1,927,035 citizens were vaccinated in our country; in particular 13.6% of those aged over eighty, 10.3% of the age group between 70-79 years and only 4.7% of citizens between 60-69 years”. Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy continue to being the Regions in which the majority of administered doses are concentrated, while all the Southern Regions, Lazio, Marche and Abruzzo have produced very low numbers.
The emergency room crisis is also due to the “weak and insufficient” flu vaccination campaign, with extremely lower coverage figures compared to previous years.
There is also the negative effect of the easing of distancing measures and tools and of masks. The ones who pay the price are the elderly and frail patients. Foce therefore expresses “all the concern and dismay over this alarming situation, due to the lack of any planning and organization of an already difficult vaccination campaign”. The association concludes that “the waste of public resources due to the failure to use enormous quantities of vaccination doses already purchased by the State” should also be highlighted.
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