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TURIN. In at this time, the number of hospitalized patients is greater than the peak of the first wave of the pandemic and is concentrated in ordinary or sub-intensive hospitalizations: Sunday night + 25% hospitalizations in these areas compared to the peak of the pandemic. In intensive care, we are around two thirds of the maximum peak of the first wave: if the trend of infections is linear, in a week we can estimate 400-450 hospitalized in intensive care, equal to the peak of the first wave, and 5,500 -6,000 hospitalized in other departments. All this compared to a daily average of 3,588 new positive cases in the week of November 2 to 8: the peak occurred on the 5th, a modest decrease has been observed for a few days. In the last two weeks, the daily average of patients waiting to be admitted to the emergency room was 450 to 500 people.
Data from Civil Protection
Figures that alleviate the anguish of Piedmont, those illustrated in the fourth Regional Health Commission by Gian Antonio Cibinel, coordinator of the Dea Area. A region that yesterday recorded 49 deaths, 2,876 new infections compared to Sunday and 181 new hospitalizations (+ 8 in intensive care, + 173 not in intensive care), reaching 100,000 cases since the beginning of the pandemic.
Even more interesting is the cross-section that emerges from the report of the Regional Civil Protection updated last Sunday: the known positive patients are 54,197, compared to the minimum of about 800 cases in the second half of July and the first half of August, and at maximum of the first wave. of 15,719 cases at the beginning of May. Known positives are more than three times the maximum in early May. Over the past four weeks, deaths have been on the rise, with a current mortality of around 40% since the April peak. The total number of hospitalized Covid patients is 4,852 (of which 312 in intensive care and 4,540 in other services, data updated with yesterday’s bulletin), after the low of mid-August (77 patients, of which 2 in intensive care ): there has been a progressive increase for two months, initially linear and then exponential in the last four weeks. The maximum number of hospitalized patients had been reached at the beginning of April with a total of 3,985 (453 in intensive care): compared to the maximum in April, the total hospitalized was 117%, those hospitalized in intensive care 67% and 123% hospitalized in wards other than intensive care. 40 days after the recovery from the epidemic, the curves of the second wave are increasing, while during the first they had already reached their maximum point.
First Aid
QRegarding emergency-urgency, the trend of the aggregate data of all the emergency rooms / Piedmont Dea, at 10 am, shows an increase in the total number of patients in the last week (average 1,008, maximum 1,111) , Covid patients (average 444, maximum 506), patients awaiting hospitalization (average 535, maximum 632) and critically ventilated patients (average 94, maximum 125). Among waiting patients, 75-80% are Covid.
Gives here the anguish of the health system. Also on the intensive care front, where there is still room for maneuver: 304 occupied placesati and 190 immediately activated, with the possibility of gradually reaching 600. But at this point, among the rescuers we began to think of 700 places to also guarantee the intensive treatment of Non-Covid patients, penalized in Phase one.
As for places for low and medium intensity Covid patients, the latest innovation is the closing of the agreement with accredited private facilities: a total of 585 places will be made available, an important reserve. –
