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Here it is, in the numbers of the Agency for Regional Health Services (Agenas), the anxiety into which the health system has fallen again, especially in the most critical area: that of intensive care. 42% of intensive care places are occupied by Covid patients, or 12% above the critical threshold of 30%. A figure that concerns 17 regions out of 21: a week ago there were 10. And the seats in medical rooms occupied by Covid patients are 51% nationally, compared to a threshold of 40%: a figure that affects 15 regions , compared to 12 out of 7 days earlier.
Arcuri: “No pressure on intensive care”
A generalized criticality from north to south is shown by the monitoring of Agenas, updated with the data of November 17: these are data based on a reworking of those of Civil Protection and the Ministry of Health. In intensive care, the 30% threshold, identified by the decree of the Ministry of Health of April 30, 2020, is exceeded by: Abruzzo (37%), Basilicata (33%), Calabria (34%, a sharp increase in compared to 13% of the data from November 10), Campania (34%), Emilia Romagna (35%), Lazio (32%), Liguria (53%), Lombardy (64%), Marche (45%), PA Bolzano (57%), PA Trento (39%), Piedmont (61%), Puglia (41%), Sardinia (37%), Tuscany (47%), Umbria (55%), Valle d’Aosta (46%) ). While Sicily is at the limit value of 30%.
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With regard to hospitalizations in ‘non-critical’ areas, that is, in infectious diseases, pulmonology and internal medicine wards, the threshold of beds occupied by Covid patients, in this case defined as 40%, by: Abruzzo (47% ), Calabria (43%), Campania (47%), Emilia Romagna (47%), Lazio (49%), Liguria (74%), Lombardy (53%), Marche (52%), PA Bolzano (95% )), PA Trento (65%), Piedmont (92%), Puglia (51%), Tuscany (41%), Umbria (50%), Valle d’Aosta (73%, a sharp drop compared to 85% November 10).
Covid, Brusaferro (Iss): “Curva is growing rapidly: hospitalizations and intensive care close to a critical level”
And the difficulty of the health system is also attested by family doctors, who today declared a state of agitation: “Now we are in a state of agitation, although in this emergency phase it is difficult to plan a strike. But once the strike is over. There will be a storm. I need, give me the deadline, a confrontation because we cannot continue like this, “says Angelo Testa, national president of the Snami medical union. The inter-union conference proclaimed a state of unrest because” the state cannot discharge us responsibilities that are not ours ” .
Brusaferro: “The spread of the virus is evaluated with a combination of indicators”
“Doctors are subjected to grueling shifts also due to their colleagues who are sick with Covid. More than 20 thousand healthcare workers (including hospitals, Mmg and nurses) have been infected since September, including general practitioners, often left without protections. with clinics discovered for which it is sometimes not possible to find substitutes; those who remain must also do the work for others ”, say the family doctors who, asking for the strengthening of the territorial network:“ Of the eleven doctors Second wave Covid, 9 were family doctors ”
