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6,114 new cases and 85 deaths in just 24 hours. The dam prepared by Switzerland, to deal with the second wave of Covid 19, is shaking, despite Bern speaking of a slowdown in infections. Which, however, according to the latest data, is still very worrying, given that there are 926 per 100,000 inhabitants, compared to 500 in Italy. However, the government does not intend to introduce a blockade, but, recalling federalism, it allows individual cantons to decide on the emergency measures to be taken. This despite the fact that the federal COVID-19 task force recommended closing bars, restaurants and museums last Friday.
In the last hours, meanwhile, a statement from the Swiss Society of Intensive Care Medicine has gone around the world, according to which the beds in intensive care units have been exhausted. “I also read the news, early in the morning on the website of the New York Times and I jumped, “says a Republic infectious disease specialist Christian Garzoni, medical director of the Moncucco clinic in Lugano, one of the two COVID hospitals in the canton of Ticino. “Actually – he adds – there are still reserves but we are in a critical situation worldwide.”
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“In Switzerland we are under pressure but not saturation,” explains a Republic Giorgio Merlani, who runs the cantonal medical practice in Ticino. “It happened – he adds – that on the one hand we have reached the official capacity of the available beds, on the other hand their real capacity has increased”. It is no coincidence that the Swiss Society of Intensive Care Medicine announced that “thanks to the efforts of medical teams across the country, new intensive care positions have been created, but the situation is tense.”
The case of Geneva, one of the cantons most affected by the pandemic, is emblematic: forced to have to transfer patients to Bern, Zurich and St. Gallen. However, if the number of people who need a place in intensive care does not decrease significantly, it is not clear how much autonomy Swiss hospitals have. “As for me – says the infectious diseases specialist Garzoni – I am also concerned that Covid patients are stealing beds from other patients.”
