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165 deaths in a single day, which is equivalent to almost 20% of Covid-19 deaths throughout Italy. More hospitalizations than in March. Hospitals on the brink of collapse and full morgues. What is happening with the coronavirus epidemic in Veneto, which has always been in the yellow zone but with an impressive increase in recent days?
Record deaths and more hospitalizations than in March: what happens in Veneto
The number of deaths is affected by the count of some old data that escaped in recent months, but in any case exceeds the previous negative record of last December 10, that day the deceased were 148. The president of the Luca Region Zaia admits that “the situation is heavy”, prays “for the vaccines to arrive as soon as possible” which would constitute “a ray of sunshine in this tragedy” and counts 3,320 new positives in 24 hours, for a total of 196,790 since the beginning of the epidemic. However, there are a large number of swabs, 52,641 (16,810 molecular and 35,831 fast), for a positive percentage of 6.30%. “The infections are still too high. The beds in the community hospitals are all sold out except one in Bovolone. In addition, the rehabilitation places are also exhausted. Basically, the system at all levels of care is exhausted”, says the DG of the Ulss 9 Scaligera, Pietro Girardi. “Our concern is that people are entering the ER, that they are collapsing.”
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It is the darkest day in the region that has 88.5 infections and 1.87 deaths per 10,000 inhabitants, so much so that there are those who fear that Italy in the yellow zone as of December 20 could end in the same way than Veneto, where the citizens have interpreted the few restrictions with too much liberality and today there are no number of concentrations in the streets and shopping malls and even in the places where the coronavirus runs between one dew and another. The merry health care war machine that brilliantly overcame the March emergency is now in trouble. “It is as if nearly seven large provincial hospitals are targeting Covid. We are no longer afraid of dying …”, says Zaia. it gets along with the “consumerist fringe of uncivilized people” that has assaulted cities but in the meantime does not close, does not issue ordinances and tries to preserve the profits and the turnover of restaurateurs, bartenders and hoteliers. And while the governor defends those who open the premises and takes it out on those who crowd, the Corriere della Sera In an article by Andrea Pasqualetto he explains that there is a study of the Region that seems to leave no doubt about what is happening:
This is how Francesca Russo, a doctor and head of the Region’s Prevention Department, introduced it, a bit of the director of the Veneto model that always shies away from the media: “We consider the average mortality rate for the last three years. The excess of this average was 38% between the end of March and the beginning of April. During the summer it fell drastically, in the first 15 days of November it rose to 32% and in the second semester it reached 44% ”.
The most infected range is between 25 and 64 years, 75 is the average age of hospitalization and mortality increases from that threshold. Conclusion: “The productive world is the one that is most infected and acts as a vector for the elderly who end up in hospital and sometimes die.”
Orange and red zone from Christmas 2020: Italy closed from December 24 to January 6
The yellow zone of Veneto with emergency rooms collapsing
But then why is Veneto still in the yellow zone? First, because it is clear that the governor does not intend to take responsibility for the closures and hopes that the government will remove the chestnuts from the fire, as many of his colleagues did during the first and second waves of the epidemic. And secondly, because officially the intensive care figures do not suffer: 588 hospitalized and 1000 places still available.
“It is a doped figure, the truth is that hospitals in some areas are near the breaking point,” Adriano Benanzato, secretary of the hospital’s doctors union, told Corriere. The Region responds that it is possible to reconvert other departments, it is glad that there are no doctors and one out of every two patients who arrive in intensive care eventually dies.
And while the Vicenza newspaper It is found every day with a page and a half of obituaries, the Veneto Region has opened calls for 3,500 health professionals, managing to recruit 2,500. “There is a spasmodic search for personnel that cannot be found … It is not the desire not to hire people but a national problem of personnel that cannot be found,” says the Councilor for Health Emanuela Lanzarote. Perhaps the region hopes that the orange and red zone the government is planning for Christmas, New Years and Epiphany will arrive just in time before the collapse. Otherwise … it’s better not to think about it.
