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The possibility of Apulia moving from the orange to the yellow zone today does not excite the new regional health councilor, the epidemiologist Pier Luigi Lopalco, who in an interview Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno It raises all their fears both for the psychological effect that both the passage could have on the Apulians, as well as on the regional health system, under stress in this period under the weight of a large number also in intensive care. A difficult moment, but which according to Lopalco also coincides with the peak of the Coronavirus pandemic in Apulia that precedes the first improvements: “Infections are stabilizing – he explained – and in the next two weeks we will see a decrease.” Now it turns yellow for Puglia, however: “you risk transmitting the wrong signal.”
A system, that of the division of regions into bands, which Professor Lopalco considers a “serious communication error”. This subdivision into yellow, orange and red stripes, “has passed the principle that if you are in the yellow stripe you can do whatever you want, in the orange stripe there is a health problem that has not been used for the beds, if you are in A red stripe scares you. ”“ Staying in the yellow stripe – specifies the regional health advisor – means that we are in the midst of a pandemic and we have to stay home ”.
The situation in Puglia, between Rt less than 1 and hospital saturation
Furthermore, compared to the national trend, Puglia seems to see the worst effects of this second wave “one or two weeks late”. According to Professor Lopalco, this situation could be linked to the postponement of the reopening of schools, which could “have played an important role” in delaying the new rise of the contagion curve: a question, that of schools, continuously confrontation and debate between experts and not.
Yes, because even though Puglia has an Rt index of less than 1 and the contagion curve is slowing down, other indicators are not as comforting. Only yesterday, December 3, in Puglia were counted +1,602 new net cases of soles 8,753 processed, with a percentage relationship between the number of new positives and the test 18.3%. At the same time, the heel of the boot has problems with hospital admissions.
In Puglia, in fact, about fifty% of the available places is occupied by Covid patients, far exceeding the alarm thresholds of 30% me 40% defined by the Minister of Health. A fact that, however, according to Professor Lopalco, “is going better.” “During the high season of hospitalization we stay here until 10 at night looking for beds,” the epidemiologist specifies. Now we go to sleep early. And the midnight phone calls to the ambulances lined up outside the ER no longer reach us.
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