Intensive care close to the critical threshold of 30% of employment: in 8 Regions there is already the risk of collapse – The data

Everybody intensive therapy of Italian hospitals are very close to the threshold of 30% of beds occupied by COVID-19 patients, defined as “critical” by the Ministry of Health. The Italian average stands at 28%, but it is red alert in 8 regions, which have already largely overcome it. The top of the ‘black list’ is the Aosta Valley which has now reached 60% saturation of its intensive care beds, followed by Umbria at 47%, Lombardy and autonomous province of Bolzano (42%), Tuscany (39%), Market (35%), Piedmont (34%) e Campania (33%) This is what emerges from the data, updated to November 2, processed by Agenas, the National Agency for Regional Health Services. Numbers that land directly on the government table, dealing with the final stages of negotiations with the governors for the launch of the new dpcm expected at night. And that will have a weight (along with the Rt contagion index) when choosing which Regions to include in one of the three risk bands provided by the executive to avoid a nationwide lockdown.

Among the Regions close to the 30% threshold there are also Liguria (27% of beds occupied) e Emilia romagna (25%), while Apulia, Sardinia me Sicily they register a 24% occupancy of intensive care beds. Calabria, Lazio, Abruzzo and the autonomous province of Trento amounted to about 22%, followed by Friuli Venezia Giulia (twenty-one%), Basilicata (20%) and lastly the Veneto with 16% of places occupied. The problem is that the trend of the curve in recent weeks is likely to lead to saturation also these territories, net of the others beds that can still be activated. Right in Veneto have been registered in the last 24 hours 2,298 new cases and 31 deaths. Governor Luca Zaia added that “busy days for intensive care: yesterday we ‘loaded’ 12 new patients, today there are some at noon already about ten. So, he emphasized, we are getting closer to most acute phase of the epidemic “.

Sound the alarm again about the impact of Covid on hospitals too Filippo Anelli, President of the Federation of Italian Medical Orders. “The concern of doctors is that this second wave is not a storm, but a tsunami that could overwhelm the sanitary system. That is why we ask the government for more aggressive measures ”, reads a post on Facebook. “The problem today – he argues – has to do with the stability of the health system, because progressive employment seats per Sick covid gradually reduces the possibility of guaranteeing treatment to other sick people. Continuing like this, the situation could get out of control ”. On the other hand, the data on infections speak for themselves: yesterday, although in absolute numbers the new cases decreased compared to the weekend, the rate of positivity in the swabs carried out remained unchanged. At the same time pressure on hospitals has continued to increase: they are currently 2,022 patients assisted in intensive care throughout the country, of which 435 only in Lombardy. The occupied beds in Covid rooms, on the other hand, are 19,840. A trend that, in the absence of new measures, runs the risk of bringing several Regions – Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria, Emilia Romagna – to 100% saturation of hospital beds, effectively paralyzing the health system. Hence the government’s decision to resort to a new dpcm with even stricter rules, until “lock light“In the German style (as defined by the Undersecretary of Health Sandra Zampa) for the Regions most affected by the pandemic.

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