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The summer contagion queue stops at hospitals. The increase in hospitalizations is the symptom of the growth of positive Covid cases registered in August. The usual delay between the moment of infection, the arrival of symptoms and the worsening of the disease is visible in the numbers of these days. It is there that we notice the real increase, the real effects of a general relaxation, somewhat understandable after months of struggle between the lockdown and a first restart, combined with the arrival of summer, travel and the opening of clubs and discos.
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Instead, what seems to have registered a first slowdown is that of new infections. The post-August boom appears to have stopped. The step back in the discos, the controls launched on the returns of countries at risk and the action in the different airports, with the Lazio Region in the front row in reaction times, are bearing the first fruits. And even citizens, perhaps frightened by the nightmare of a strong second wave, have turned the red light back on and returned their fate to masks, gel and spacing for the next few months.
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The numbers, we said, reflect the historical moment that we are living within the pandemic. Summer, taking as its starting point the end of July, saw the number of hospitalized patients with symptoms doubles from just over 700 to over 1500 of the last hours. The number of jobs in intensive care has even tripled, from the low peak of 38/40 patients to 120 today. The current positives present in our country have also almost tripled, that is, the people facing Covid at this time: from just over 12,000 to almost 30,000. The type of patients, younger and the monitoring system that allows the virus to circulate with less freedom in the family and in the returns to the workplace has changed.
Instead, infections stabilized with the daily quota that fluctuates just below 1,400 cases on a kind of plateau that has not shot up as feared at the end of August. A curve that appears to have flattened in the past two weeks after rising worryingly in the days after mid-August.
Last Updated: Thursday, September 3, 2020 21:38
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