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The moving average of new income due to Covid-19 in Greater São Paulo this Friday (13) is higher in November than in October. In the middle of last month, São Paulo reached the lowest level of the historical series, which began in April, with 499 daily admissions on October 17 and 18, and now, in November, the number has risen again.
The current rate is 596 admissions per day, between suspected and confirmed cases in the public and private systems.
Doctors from 14 private hospitals in the capital also point to an increase in the number of admissions for Covid-19 in this segment, and warn that the trend may extend to the public network.
This Friday, the Albert Einstein Hospital, in the South Zone of São Paulo, affirmed that the number of hospitalizations has increased in recent days.
According to a note, between Thursday (12) and Friday (13) “there were 18 new hospitalizations related to Covid-19. The figure exceeds the average of hospitalizations counted daily in recent weeks. Today, there are 68 beds occupied by patients with a confirmed diagnosis of the disease. From the last week of September to November 12, the average number of hospitalizations ranged between 50 and 55 patients infected with SARS-Cov-2 “.
The hospital also noticed an increase in tests performed. “Between October 20 and 26, the daily average was 869 tests, 82 positive. From October 27 to November 2, 867, with 97 positives. Between November 3 and 9, the average was 1,017 and 155 confirmations. ”
The government of São Paulo did not reveal the number of deaths from Covid-19 on Friday due to problems in the national notification system, administered by the Ministry of Health. The forecast is that the system to return to normality only on Monday (16), after the first round of municipal elections.
The executive secretary of the Ministry of Health, Elcio Franco, said on Friday that there are “indications” that the portfolio has been the target of cyberattacks. Last week, the ministry said only that a virus was found on Thursday (5) on the agency’s computer network. On Friday, the portfolio admitted only one “incident”, without giving details of the problem that affected the update of the data of cases and deaths of Covid-19 for days throughout the country.
The state of São Paulo went five days without updating deaths from Covid-19 due to problems in the Sivep system, which collects notifications of deaths and serious cases of the disease. Other states have had delays in updating the data in recent days, but only Amapá and São Paulo have not published any balance during this period.
In a note sent on Friday, the State Health Department states that it “was once again unable to fully process the Covid-19 data due to problems in the Sivep system of the Ministry of Health.
“The instability of the federal system has meant that in the last 7 days the state has been able to process the data in only 2 days, directly impacting the count of deaths of epidemiological week 45, which ended last Saturday, and the current one,” said the release. .
The Ministry of Health system continues to have problems
Increase in private hospitals
Doctors from 14 private hospitals in the capital point to an increase in the number of admissions for Covid-19 in recent weeks. They say the easing is generating a new incidence of cases in private hospitals, especially in people who were previously isolated in their homes.
Number of patients increases in the last 3 weeks in private hospitals in SP
During a press conference held on Thursday (12), the state health secretary, Jean Gorinchteyn, denied the increase in the number of hospitalizations. Government officials also said they have data from private hospitals that deny the increase in hospitalizations in this segment. “We work with official figures and these official figures do not reveal what is exposed by the media,” he said.
Dr. Marcio Sommer Bittencourt, a professor in public health at Harvard University, estimates that if the government has specific data for private hospitals, these should be public.
“The government does not agree with our analysis of the increase in cases admitted by Covid-19. They have a private hospital admissions bank. How about having full transparency with this data to see where we went wrong? “, Question.
