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Blocking measures serve to contain the spread of the virus, but are activated when there is a risk of collapse of the health system. In other words, when the numbers say that we are running out of places in the departments of intensive care. Measuring the number of hospitalized patients with respect to the available beds thus becomes a more effective tool than that of infections to assess the situation. Not to mention that the number of people hospitalized is safe, while the number of infected depends on the number of swabs performed. Keep in mind that an ICU is not saturated when it is physically 100%, but when it is close to being full and you have a lot of Covid patients, because managing a COVID is much heavier for the staff working there. Intensive care for more than half is already a significant overload.
For this reason Infodata created the infographic that opens this piece. The graph is built by crossing the data related to the available beds, information released by the commissioner for the coronavirus emergency Domenico Arcuri, with those provided by Civil protection about admissions.
The red squares represent the percentage of occupied beds out of the total available ones. In the upper box (top left for desktop readers) the national situation remains fixed. In the lower one (in the other three for desktop readers) the situations in the three regions that, as we wrote, have the highest occupancy rate are “photographed”. Filters allow you to see the situation in other regions. The chart is updated daily.
In addition to allowing constant monitoring of the saturation of intensive care units, the data provided by the Prime Minister also allows us to see how availability has changed. In fact, the relaunch decree provided that it would have 14 seats each 100 thousand inhabitants. These are the results:
With the only positive exceptions of the Veneto and of Aosta Valley, who have installed more beds than necessary, and Friuli Venezia Giulia that has hit the mark, the rest of the Italian regions are still struggling. Worst situation in Umbria, where none of the 57 places to add has been done. The best in the aforementioned Veneto – here the request was to add 211 Places in intensive care, have been carried out 331. Not only that: a quarter of the intensive care beds added in recent months are in Veneto hospitals. Region that, after having managed the first wave with one of the highest ratios between tampons and inhabitants, is preparing to face the second with the largest share of intensive care places in relation to the population.
