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This morning the number of infected patients hospitalized is 60. L ‘Brain hospital of Palermo is experiencing what, in acute phase of the Covid-19 epidemic, had not lived: “Numbers we’ve never seen before, at least here. In Sicily, the province of Catania had many infections, we did not. ” Massimo Farinella and the Director of the Infectious Diseases Operational Unit and has available three floors of rooms for your patients. One is already full and has 22 seats, the others are quickly becoming saturated. Fourteen of those infected are hospitalized in intensive respiratory care. Eight were in intensive care, ma two people am passed away. “But the situation is constantly evolving,” continues Farinella.
In the capital of Palermo, “what differentiates the first phase of this is the concentration of inputs over time. In a few days many infected people arrive, something that did not happen before ”. Without considering the difficulty, now, of tracing contacts and tracing the source of the infection. In recent days, health personnel have come to understand that many people have been exposed to Covid-19 in a ristorante of the Trapani province. And that others, however, had had contact with asymptomatic from northern Italy, came to Sicily to visit relatives. And from there the contagion spread. The indiscriminate opening of domestic and tourist flights hurt many regions. We also”.
The other cluster that is registering more cases in these hours is that of Rap, the municipal investee company that deals with garbage collection in Palermo: the positives – as of yesterday – are 3. 4. “In that case, however, we were unable to establish a diffusion from abroad and now we can talk about one territorial supply chain of infections “, continues Farinella.” From the epidemiological point of view, we must interpret that these are infections assumed after the mid-August“, and that are now spreading.
In recent days the protocol to follow was defined in the regional health department. When the hospital is saturated, Cervello will intervene first other health facilities of the city and then those of the nearest provinces. “With the hope, however, of not reaching such high figures. The worst hypothesis has been studied – concludes the primary – and for that we must be prepared.” But the concern remains. And with the decline in the average age of those infected, the reopening of schools will be, says the doctor, “a difficult stress test“.
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