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Genoa. “Tonight the infectious disease department is full. The situation is not an emergency, but is gradually changing ”. Matteo bassetti, chief physician of San Martino di Genova, confirms what has emerged from the regional bulletins of recent days: hospital admissions in Liguria show again a tendency to rise after a long slow descent. Today 590, yesterday was 579, Tuesday 570. Just think that a week ago there were 545, which is 45 less than today.
“It will be a weekend different from the previous ones – confirms Angelo Gratarola, coordinator of the emergency-urgency department of Liguria and director of the emergency room of San Martino -. The increased circulation of the virus affects the hospital system.. The pressure has increased, although not dramatically. For now the pressure on intensive care is constant, we have fluctuations with very small numbers. It is possible that even that number will increase because some patients become complicated and need intensive care ”.
The data from the monitoring of the ISS-Ministry of Health, which will be presented tomorrow and which will decide the permanence of Liguria in the yellow zone (except for surprises), say that the beds occupied by positives are below the critical threshold, but consult the week pass. This week’s data, on the other hand, will affect the valid decisions for the Ligurians as of March 15. This is to give an idea of the “delayed blowout” effect at the ordinance level.
“Last week we said we should have raised the benches because shelters could have increased and we did,” continues Bassetti. San Martino and the other hospitals are perfectly equipped. If there is an increase in cases in the next four weeks, as happened a year ago due to the first wave, we are ready.“.
The positive news is that in the last week admissions through the Quick clue (that is, patients controlled by family doctors in direct contact with the hospital) were 60, all people who do not overwhelm the emergency room.
And while hospitalized people grow up with an average age that remains between 70 and 75 years, as Bassetti explains, the interesting thing is that the infection is now spreading much more among the young than among the elderly. “Since the vaccination campaign began, the scenario has changed – explains Filippo Ansaldi, Alisa’s head of prevention. During the 1980s we have had a prodigious decline in incidence, which went from 30 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in January to about 15 current cases ”. So much so that now the age group that presents the most infections in proportion is between 5 and 19 years old, that is, children and young people of school age.
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