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Half of Italy was deprived of oxygen, according to Wednesday data from the daily La Repubblica, showing that hospitals and there is not enough medical oxygen for officially quarantined coronavirus patients.
The left wing newspaper wrote oxygen has become scarce in Italian pharmacies. The demand for medical oxygen used to treat Covid-19 patients with coronavirus has increased by four hundred percent in recent weeks.
Riccardo Maria Iorio, president of the Federfarma association, which represents about twenty thousand pharmacies, said that the worst situation is currently registered in Campania, Abruzzo, Basilicata, Liguria, Valle d’Aosta, Piedmont and the island of Sicily.
The whole world was traversed by images taken in the parking lot of the Cotugno Hospital in Naples of patients treated in their own cars lining up for oxygen cylinders.
A Neapolitan lawyer, Enrica Troisi, who told La Repubblica, reported that she had called more than 100 pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies when she received an oxygen bottle for a relative of a patient.
Data from Tuesday night showed that the number of active patients exceeded 733,000, but it was not reported how many of them required medical oxygen. According to the daily Corriere della Sera, Italy has been affected by a “deadly” strain of the coronavirus. The newspaper noted a remarkably high mortality rate: according to a study by John Hopkins University in the United States, four out of every 100 patients in Italy lose their lives, the third highest in the world after Mexico, where 10 out of every 100 patients , and Iran, where five out of every hundred patients.
Since the end of February, more than 1.2 million have fallen ill and more than 46,000 have died in Italy, with an average age of 82, in Italy of 60 million. The newspaper highlighted that in Spain, with a population of fifty million, three hundred thousand more people have been screened, but the number of deaths so far has remained below 42,000. Epidemiologist Massimo Cicozzi, a doctor at the Biomedical Campus in Rome, says that this may explain the higher incidence of chronic diseases in the elderly Italian population than in other European countries. He added that death rates were also higher in nursing homes in Italy than elsewhere.
According to a poll published in Corriere, 37 percent of Italians say they inject themselves as soon as the vaccine arrives. Forty-two percent said they would wait for the vaccine to work first and only then would they decide whether to administer it themselves. Currently, sixteen percent think they say no to vaccines.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte spoke of a “serious” health and economic crisis at an Internet meeting of the Fipe organization, which brings together the hotel and commercial sector. He stressed that psychological symptoms, including “discouragement”, are increasingly felt among the Italian population.
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