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The president of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Iss) spoke about it, speaking by videoconference before the Chamber’s Committee on Social Affairs. It is, he added, “an element of care because it means that a high number of older people contract the infection and can present serious symptoms.”
“The median age of the people who contract the infection had a tendency to start close to 70 years, then in August it reached values of 30 years and stabilized between the end of September and October around 40 years, but now it is growing little by little ”. This is the outlook that is emerging regarding the current situation and the health emergency in our country, as described by Silvio Brusaferro, president of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Iss) who spoke by videoconference before the Chamber’s Social Affairs Commission. The expert intervened during the hearing of the report issued by Iss and the Ministry of Health entitled: “Prevention and response to Covid-19: evolution of the strategy and planning in the transition phase for the autumn-winter period” and on the current state of the monitoring and monitoring of infections.
Those over 70 involved
deepening
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It is “an element of care because it means that a high number of older people contract the infection and can have severe symptoms,” added Brusaferro. “Now those over 70 are involved and this is a data in which you have to pay a lot.” attention, “he specified.
A phase of “escalation”
“After having had a transition phase, we are in a phase that we technically define as escalation and therefore we must use part containment measures and part mitigation measures”, explained Brusaferro. “Unlike the first wave, the virus circulates in all regions”, although there are “situations with limited circulation and others with especially high values”. One of the significant data to report, according to the expert, is the percentage of positive swab: “When it exceeds 4% it is an indicator of strong circulation, and this characteristic exists in all regions of our country,” he pointed out. said the president of the ISS.
The status of admissions
deepening
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Then, Brusaferro focused on the issue related to hospitalizations and intensive care. “The number of hospitalizations with symptoms is an increasing number and it deserves attention,” he said, “and the same is true for intensive care.” Precisely with regard to the occupation of beds in ordinary hospitalization with medicinal air, the expert explained that “some regions have passed the cut-off, others have not but are close.” The meaning of the cut-off points, which are the threshold values defined by the Ministry of Health, is that if we have “more than 40% occupancy of the beds in the medical area for Covid diseases, it means that we have to reschedule the activities of deferred health for other diseases, so to find a place and prioritize patients with Sars-cov-2, “he explained.
A “significant peak”
“In recent weeks the curve has had a significant peak”, but “the presence of asymptomatic and paucisymptomatic patients is a characteristic of this phase of the epidemic,” said Brusaferro, reiterating how “a growing number of elderly are contracting” Infection and we know which, in his case, implies the possibility of challenging the symptomatology and invasive treatment methods “, he concluded.
