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Establishment Gimbe: small signs of slowing down of the epidemic
In the last 3-4 days, there are “small signs of slowdown” in the trend of the Covid epidemic in Italy. According to the president of the Gimbe Foundation Nino Cartabellotta, as of March 20 in the medical area the national figure (41%) exceeded the alert level of 40% with Lombardy (51%), Emilia Romagna (54%) and Piedmont (58 %) exceed 50% and Trademarks up to 64%. In intensive care, the national figure (37%) is well above the alert level of 30% with 6 regions exceeding 50%: Emilia Romagna, Piedmont and Umbria (53%), Lombardy (56%), Marche and Province of Trento (58%).
These levels of overload, in addition to making the care of Covid patients more complex, increase the stress of hospital staff and services and require the postponement of surgery and other non-urgent services for non-Covid patients ”. The third wave “grafted” into the descending phase of the second, continues Cartabellotta, starting from a “plateau” with more than 382,000 positive cases currently, 17,725 patients hospitalized in medical departments and 2,082 in intensive care. “In approximately 4 weeks, these numbers have skyrocketed to more than 565,000, 27,061 and 3,387, respectively. Consequently, in the Regions that have experienced a greater circulation of the virus, the number of beds was quickly saturated ”.
