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When the infection is generalized, the curve that matters most is that of hospitalizations, experts explain. A curve that in Italy began to flex on November 25. There is still no trace of this decline in Friuli Venezia Giulia. 700 hospitalized patients were broken, 710 to be precise, of which 58 in intensive care. In the spring it had not even reached 300. The number of beds in the medical area exceeded 51 percent. In twenty days, the number of hospitalized patients has almost doubled, compared with a slight decrease in the rest of Italy. Also in terms of deaths, in the second wave Friuli Venezia Giulia does worse than the rest of Italy. Since October 1, 538 positive people have died from Coronavirus, which is equivalent to 44 inhabitants per 10,000 inhabitants, compared to 35 deaths for the Italian average. The fatality rate is also higher: almost two positives out of every hundred died, compared to 1.59 in Italy. The curves for hospitalizations and even more for deaths are lagging behind that of infections, which in any case does not drop as it happens in the rest of Italy. In the last 7 days we have had 479 cases per 10,000 inhabitants, compared to 275 in the rest of the country. Projected to fourteen days, the Italian cases are 636, those of Friuli Venezia Giulia 946. The worst situations are in the former provinces of Udine Gorizia, where more than one in every hundred residents has become positive in the last two weeks. This week’s data is not reassuring: between Monday and Wednesday there were more than two thousand cases, a value never reached in the first three days of each week. In the Gimbe foundation’s graph that combines the weekly increase in cases and the incidence of positives in the last two, Friuli Venezia Giulia is in the worst position, even if the positivity of the lagging private laboratories must be considered.
