"The positive rate of the molecular is 24% and that of the antigenic swab has exceeded 8%. They are data that tell us that the virus is circulating a lot. It is true that the Omicron variant in the single subject can give a less serious disease , 40% less likely to be hospitalized, but it is also true that with these numbers, if about 1% go to hospital and 1% go to intensive care, we are discussing very high absolute numbers ". The president of the Gimbe Foundation Nino Cartabellotta told Rtl 102.5. "Last night we had almost 14 thousand patients in the medical area and almost 1470 in intensive care - he explained - the hospital wave of this surge of infections we will see in the coming weeks, in some regions we are already beginning to see field hospitals, black areas,in short, a somewhat critical situation ".
The transmissibility index Rt and the incidence of Covid cases in Italy are still rising: the incidence reported yesterday, January 6, is in fact equal to 1669 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants and doubles compared to the value of 783 last week. The RT instead rose to 1.43 from the value of 1.18 the previous week. According to what has been learned, it emerges from the weekly monitoring by Iss-Ministry of Health to the examination of the control room.
The employment rate in intensive care is up, which this week is at 15.4% (Ministry of Health daily survey as of January 6) against 12.9% (Ministry of Health daily survey as of December 30) of the previous week. The employment rate in medical areas at a national level, on the other hand, rises to 21.6% (daily survey by the Ministry of Health as of January 6) compared to 17.1% (daily survey by the Ministry of Health as of December 30). This is evidenced by the weekly monitoring Iss-Ministry of Health.
"We have an exponential increase in infections, we are at 200 thousand cases and it is likely that they will rise even more, this means that many worried people, often with mild symptoms, rightly go to ask the hospital network for assistance. Network that has been further reorganized in last weeks to face this wave. Unfortunately, everything that is not Covid is accumulated, delayed, postponed ". The Undersecretary of Health Pierpaolo Sileri said this on Radio Cusano Campus. "It is evident that this wave will probably be numerically very high in terms of infections - he explained - but in proportion to the infections, the pressure on hospitals will probably not be like the one we had with the Delta variant. There is a virus that is likely to be less aggressive andis a population for the most part vaccinated, this combination means that the overload for the hospital network is less than in previous waves ". Sileri, however, stressed that there will still be" an increase in hospitalizations in the coming days and the hospital network must keep up. ready to handle this situation. We also have to manage the ordinary. Now we also have the problem of positive health workers who therefore go to quarantine and cannot work, this creates further difficulties ".We also have to manage the ordinary. Now we also have the problem of positive health workers who therefore go to quarantine and cannot work, this creates further difficulties ".We also have to manage the ordinary. Now we also have the problem of positive health workers who therefore go to quarantine and cannot work, this creates further difficulties ".
"The virus seems to have more and more the connotations of an endemic seasonal disease". This was stated in an interview with 'Corriere della Sera' by the medical director of the Institute for infectious diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani in Rome, Francesco Vaia, who explains: "The virus is no longer taking the lungs, but is stopping at upper airways, as happens with the most common respiratory diseases ". The variant of the coronavirus Omicron "is not very pathogenic and presents an attenuation of the disease", continues Vaia, who reports the results of some international studies: "Almost 80% of those infected with Omicron are pauci or asymptomatic". It is difficult to predict new waves of the virus. "In autumn we will think about securing the elderly and the frail,just as it has been doing for years with the seasonal virus ", explains Vaia. Omicron, although less pathogenic, remains" much more contagious "than the previous Delta variant." Which is why - Vaia states - to avoid the high incidence we are observing, in addition to the overcoming of the patent, an update of the vaccines against the variants is urgently needed. "The new anti-Covid pill is being tested at the Spallanzani." From the first results - reports the health director of the institute - it would seem to give the desired effects: the disease does not get worse ".in addition to the overcoming of the patent, an update of the vaccines against the variants is urgently needed. "The new anti-Covid pill is being tested at the Spallanzani." From the first results - reports the health director of the institute - it would seem to give the desired effects: the disease does not get worse ".in addition to the overcoming of the patent, an update of the vaccines against the variants is urgently needed. "The new anti-Covid pill is being tested at the Spallanzani." From the first results - reports the health director of the institute - it would seem to give the desired effects: the disease does not get worse ".