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A thousand deaths every 14 days, I contagion that continue to increase over the past weeks and beyond 3 thousand Covid patients hospitalized, with a new admissions rate that shows no signs of reversing course. All while in the rest of Italy the numbers of the pandemic have dropped. the Veneto arrives at Christmas with a very serious epidemiological situation, although the Region has always remained in yellow zone. And the alarms of the territory are multiplying, such as that of the director of two intensive care units of the Padua hospital, Ives Tiberius: “We only have four free places“, He warns. If the” fire “does not go out,” bringing sick people and shelters, we run the risk of system default“. A Verona, one of the provinces most affected from a health point of view, the ordinary services were reduced by 30 percent, while Padua Unions are at odds with hospital leaders over the infection that runs through doctors and the grueling shifts they have been subjected to for months.
Governor Luca Zaia admits that “the situation in Veneto it’s heavy. There are many hospitalizations: in fact we are talking about more than 3,000 hospitalized patients, practically thousand more than the March-April peak and these are patients who have one contagious and complicated pathology“He explained at the press conference. On the other hand, the figures from the last bulletin leave no doubt: in the last 24 hours 3,320 new infections have been found (last Tuesday there were 3,145) and 165 dead, the peak since the start of the pandemic (the total is close to 5,000). Azienda Zero reveals that the number of deaths is due to delays in the communication some data accumulated during the weekend, but also the other indicators photograph the difficulties of the Region: in Covid departments Of the hospitals, 57 more beds were occupied, bringing the total to 2,951. Admissions in intensive care. The president of the Northern League explains that he is not better at retirement homes, where he mortality it has increased since March. But then specify: “we expected Such an intense second wave, we actually spent the summer reinforcing healthcare, hospital beds and intensive care and we also tested all the tests on the market.
The truth is that the classification of the Region in the yellow zone, claimed since last November by Zaia as a success of its health model and until now never modified, could have accelerated the trend of the epidemiological curve. This is demonstrated with historical data, which presents a dramatic regularity. A month ago, on November 15, the number of positives had just surpassed 100,000. Today the number is duplicate. Not only that: compared to other regions, where new cases are decreasing weekly, here they continue to increase (+ 15.6% in 7 days). The incidence of infection is also at an all-time high: the virus attacks 523 citizens for every 100,000 inhabitants, while the Italian average is 189 per 100 thousand. There sequence of deathsFurthermore, it shows an increase of around a thousand units every two weeks: on November 15 there were 2,845; two weeks later, on December 1, they grew 1,005 units, to 3,849. One more day and they could reach 5,000.
One of the most affected provinces is Verona, where Ulss 9 is the black jersey for deaths (1,252) and hospitalizations: 225 in the non-critical area and 41 in intensive care only in the capital, 421 in the non-critical area and 41 in the critical area in the other 7 hospitals of the province. Basically one in four Venetians hospitalized is from Verona. And this prompted the general manager Francesco Cobello to reduce ordinary profits by 30 percent, to the detriment of non-Covid patients. In second place for the total number of deaths we find the province of Vicenza that with 1,000 units reaches a fifth of the total. This is the sequence of deaths in the other provinces: Venice 806, Treviso 718, Padua 659, Belluno 306, Rovigo 131.
The situation is particularly dire on the front of doctors and health workers. The doctor-hero Carlo Santucci, knighted of the Republic by Sergio Mattarella and today on call in the emergency room of Camposampiero (Padua), speaks of a “dramatic situation”. Hospitals “are full of Covid patients, we won’t last long.” Words similar to those of the director of resuscitation in Padua Tiberio, according to which the contagion between doctors is further complicating the situation: “Any operator who becomes ill is difficult to replace, seen high professionalism of our departments. “Also in Padua, the unions have decided to break relations with the health leaders, after the general director Luciano Flor has put in place internal monitoring of reports of numerous infections and exhausting shifts among healthcare professionals. What caused the reaction of Alessandro bisato, regional secretary of the Democratic Party: “We are joking.” TO Montebelluna complaints from doctors and nurses that there is no longer room for patients. TO Treviso ULS has dismissed with disdain the accusations of those who claim that the sick are sent home without treatment.
Given this scenario, a red zone could be inevitable according to experts. Andrea Crisanti, director of microbiology in Padua and university professor, although he did not refer to health management in Veneto, he was very explicit: “Can I say it? I had expected a I lock up Natale would have served. I think the red zone works and we have seen it. In Lombardy it worked. What did not work are the yellow zones ”. And therefore also the maintenance of softer limits in Veneto. Then he added: “People are stressed and there is the problem that when they do not see significant results they end up saying: ‘Whatever we do, nothing changes. We could also … ‘”. But he invoked:” Here we need a government that brings out the authority conferred on it. Germany: Merkel did not hesitate in it ”. In short, “rather than reopening for Christmas, I think the situation is such that I have to advise the opposite: take advantage of the end of the year holidays to close everything in those two weeks and try to stop the infection.”
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