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By Rome is a record: 148 infected by the COVID-19 in a day, never so many, in 24 hours, sinceepidemic. And the most serious patients, those hospitalized, continue to increase: yesterday in Lazio it reached 544, figures not seen since June 2, when “phase 3” had not yet begun. “There is concern, although we expected it”, admits the president of the Medical College of Rome, Antonio Magi.
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Given that the bulletins, predictably, will continue to worsen in the coming weeks, reasoned the person in charge of the white coats of the capital, “now it is essential to give the broadest coverage to the ordinary vaccine, the flu vaccine.” The reason is easy to guess: Covid-19 and the seasonal virus have very similar symptoms. Cough fever. That is why it is essential to minimize infections, even flu. The healthcare system needs to be prevented from getting in the way, with tens of thousands of suspected cases to test, monitor and quarantine.
No special advertising campaigns should be necessary to convince people to take the ordinary vaccine: “We have requests between 80 and 90% of patients, when normally it did not exceed 50%,” says Pier Luigi Bartoletti, the Roman Secretary of the Fimmg (Italian Federation of Family Physicians). Studies are already being prepared to expedite the administration of doses: many will remain open on weekends, both Saturdays and Sundays, while others are recruiting larger open spaces for “vaccination sessions”, explains the federation. In Torpignattara, a medical office in via Bufalini has arranged with an oratory, to allow dozens of patients to inject the vaccine, without creating crowds in the corridors.
Covid Italia, today’s newsletter September 24: 1,786 new infections, 23 deaths, 10 in Lombardy. Veneto and Lazio in the lead
The situation in Italy according to the bulletin of September 24, 2020. The new registered in the last 24 hours are 1786, the deaths in the last 24 hours are 23 (the total amounts to 35,781). The positives are currently 46,780 (+666), those recovered since the beginning of the epidemic 221,762 (+1,097).
“Doctors have already been receiving appointment requests since the middle of the month – sums up the president of the Order, Magi – Priority will be given to health personnel and those over 65”. Category for which the flu vaccine is mandatory, as prescribed by Pisana
IN THE FIELDS
The Region yesterday distributed the first 329 thousand doses to Asl Roma 1 (historic center, San Lorenzo, Monte Sacro, Ottavia, Cassia) and Rome 2 (Tiburtino, Prenestino, Appio-Tuscolano, Garbatella, Tor Bella Monaca) and in the province to Asl Roma 6 (from Anzio to Frascati, from Pomezia to Velletri), as well as the health agencies of Viterbo and Latina. By October 1, another 700,000 stocks will be delivered. To receive the vaccine, it is also possible to use the “drive-in” toilets, the fields where today the Covid swab will be carried out, installed in parks and hospitals. The project is already being studied by the regional health system, it should be activated in a couple of weeks.
EXAMS
To monitor the progress of the virus in the coming months, the Region is focusing on testing in schools. Rapid nasopharyngeal swabs for middle and high schools (the first experiment yesterday, at Vian High School in Anguillara, all negative). And much less invasive saliva tests in kindergartens and elementary schools. Yesterday the Spallanzani institute spoke about this second type of exam. Aspirating saliva tests that provide an ultra-fast diagnosis, in a few minutes, through cartons or “soap bars”, while approving the experimentation that instead implies the examination of each sample in the laboratory, with longer times.
“Laboratory tests are accurate, simpler and faster than molecular tests,” explained the leadership of the Spallanzani virology laboratory, while “so-called” rapid “tests, also known as” soap “tests, are more suitable. for other applications “. We are always talking about saliva tests, other than “quick” swabs, performed for example at the airport, which give the result in a few minutes, but always require that the toothpick touch the mouth and nose. For them, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases reiterated, there is no problem of reliability.
Last update: September 25 at 5:50 pm
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