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ROME. Driven by a third more tampons, infections rise to 10,847 from 9,338 the day before. But what is worrying is the increase in deaths, from 73 to 89, and the increase in hospitalizations. Yesterday 778 more in ordinary wards and another 73 in intensive care, where 870 Covid patients are now struggling to get out of the tunnel.
Commissioner Arcuri’s data say that half of the beds available for those infected are already occupied and that, following this rate, in no more than three weeks they will be exhausted. Leaving physicians faced with the dramatic choice of deciding who to fight the decisive battle for and who not. Above all, if there is no movement to make those 1,660 beds that have never been activated, despite the fact that Commissioner Arcuri has already bought and sent the necessary lung ventilators.
The numbers say we must do it soon. Among the 5,179 intensive care beds that existed before the Covid era and the 1,449 built during the emergency, we have 6,628 available today. Much less than the 40,000 in Germany, which are mostly occupied by other categories of patients. Because strokes, heart attacks, or car accidents don’t go away when you see the virus. So much so that experts from the ISS and the Ministry of Health set the maximum quota that can be reserved for Covid patients at 30% of the available beds. Except not wanting to crash the intensive care system. Taking magari for the door that has less chance of achieving it. As it happened in times of war.
30% is equivalent to 1,988 beds today. Of these, 870 were already employed yesterday. After all, 1118 remain to care for the most serious Covid patients, 55% of the dowry. If admissions growth continued at yesterday’s pace, it would mean running out of seats in just over two weeks. And not all regions, this time frame.
Fully booked Campania could arrive much earlier, given that of the 155 available beds it still has only 39, eliminating the six occupied yesterday. But also Tuscany with 55 beds of the 127 available and Sardinia with 18 of the 52 have already occupied more than half of the planned stations. Most serious Covid 1,118, 55% of the dowry. If admissions growth continued at the rate of yesterday, it would mean running out of seats in just over two weeks. And not all regions will have this time frame. Fully booked Campania could arrive much earlier, given that of the 155 available beds it still has only 39, eliminating the six occupied yesterday. But also Tuscany, with 55 beds of the 127 available, and Sardinia, with 18 of the 52, have already occupied more than half of the planned stations.
“In fifteen days we run the risk of suffering the Caporetto of the first hospital line,” says Carlo Palermo, national secretary of Anaao, the strongest union of hospital white coats. Who sees the situation also critical in the other departments: “There has always been a lack of beds there and in many hospitals the wards are already closing for those who had to be admitted for hospitalizations and interventions planned for some time and perhaps even postponed already at the time of the first wave.”
Finding new beds will not be easy and neither will putting doctors to work. “There are 10,000 missing, and most of the gaps in the organic plant are precisely in those areas such as Internal and Intensive Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Geriatrics that are at the forefront in the care of Covid patients,” reports Palermo. Who then launches the appeal: “We immediately make fixed-term job calls for titles only to be evaluated by the head of the assignment department. In ten days, we could deploy 10,000 doctors. And if they were not already specialized, the apprentices of the last two years could be used, as foreseen by the Calabrian decree ». This too was largely wasted.
Meanwhile, as the situation in hospitals worsens, people continue to cling to the vaccine. “If the final stages of the Oxford-Irbm-AstraZeneca vaccine evaluation are completed in the coming weeks, the first doses will be available in early December,” wrote Prime Minister Conte in Bruno Vespa’s new book. “The vaccination campaign will arrive in 2021, not before,” says Speranza’s consultant Walter Ricciardi. Irbm-AstraZeneca will be completed in the next few weeks, the first doses will be available in early December, ”wrote Premier Conte in the new Vespa book. “The vaccination campaign will arrive in 2021, not before,” says Speranza’s consultant Walter Ricciardi. “I think a stronger therapy will come first, the so-called monoclonal antibodies, which are very promising,” he adds, rekindling hope. Waiting for someone to roll up their sleeves to equip our hospitals to face the emergency. Now.