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From a model region, in the fight against Covid, to the first Italian region to increase daily cases. What is happening in Veneto? Let’s start with the data. Yesterday, December 26, the new positives were 2,523 with 33 dead against him 1,756 in Emilia-Romagna and 1,606 in Lombardy. Veneto, therefore, was the first Italian region in infections in recent 24 hours. The only positive data refer to hospitalizations of Covid patients in non-critical wards that are decreasing 22 units as they go up 5 patients in intensive care. The positives are currently 88,842 (+1,457). The day before, the December 25th, there was a boom in infections: positives had been 5,010 with a positive rate of up to 36%, that is, three times the national figure.
Because infections increase
According to the governor of Veneto Luca Zaia, the increase in positives is inevitable when the number of fast and molecular buffers also increases. But the number of deaths in just 24 hours is still staggering. According to Antonia Ricci, director of the Tre Venezie Zooprofilático Institute, in Veneto there are at least three cases of the English variant and two other mutations, probably local. This, therefore, could be the main cause of the increasing infections and deaths, along with the region staying in the yellow zone for too long.
In Veneto, depending on what Corriere della Sera who interviewed Antonia Ricci – «there is a high circulation of the virus. A first explanation could be in the fact that Veneto was less affected during the first wave. And therefore fewer people with antibodies are circulating today. And then, in fact, we must understand if among the variants that circulate in Veneto there are some that are more contagious.
Didn’t the yellow zone work?
The immunologist Antonella Viola disagrees, according to which “we do not have data to assess whether the variants are so widespread as to have affected the infection. To date, no, this explanation does not convince me -he maintains-. On the other hand, what we have learned in recent months is that the orange and red areas worked and the yellow did not. In other words, the half measures have turned out to be a failure.
For Fabio Ciciliano, an expert in disaster medicine, secretary of the CTS, the high incidence of positive cases and the increase in infections could be due to the effectiveness of the Venetian health system: “This is partly explained by the large number of swabs performed , which is combined with very efficient screening and heavy use of rapid antigen tests and all of this means that molecular swabs in particular are aimed at people with a high probability of testing positive. This technical clarification is not enough, however, and if they are so many positive and because there is still a strong circulation of the virus. And this depends in part, paradoxically, on the great resilience of the health system, which has allowed Veneto to remain classified as a yellow zone. In this way, the virus was able to spread faster than in the orange or red regions. The yellow zone is, therefore, for the expert, like a double-edged sword.
Because Veneto has stayed in the yellow zone
It was precisely the twenty-one parameters, which in recent weeks have determined the entry of the regions into the “colored” bands, to impose the permanence of Veneto in the yellow band. Without a doubt they were the influencers 1,000 activatable intensive care beds, therefore a healthcare system ready to respond quickly to any critical problem. And it is precisely at this point where the first doubts also begin to arise from the ISS. The method adopted by the government is based on twenty-one parameters, is it really effective? Does it offer a real picture of the health emergency in the different regions? With the intensive care beds that can be activated, are there doctors and nurses ready to take care of them too? Or perhaps there is still a shortage of health personnel?
For Domenico Crisarà, secretary of Fimmg Veneto, acting twenty-one we must add another parameter: «Citizen responsibility that was lacking in Veneto […] These days I think of the cross-country trails on the Asiago plateau, in the Vicenza area. A sport universally considered “by losers”, pass me the term. Well, in the last weeks they were full, overflowing, it seems the new national sport of the Venetians. And things were already bad, “he says. Messenger Service.
Cover photo: ANSA / CLAUDIO MARTINELLI
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