(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 04 - The Covid hospitalization curve returns to descend.
Once the Easter effect had been eliminated, which last week had led to a reversal of the trend with a slight increase of 3.5%, in the week of April 26 / May 3 the number of hospitalizations fell by 5.7%.
This is what emerges from the survey of sentinel hospitals of the Italian Federation of Healthcare and Hospitals (Fiaso).
The number of hospitalizations in the ordinary wards for Covid assistance (-5.7%) and the number of patients in resuscitation (-7.5%) decreased in the last monitoring.
According to Fiaso, a consistent share, equal to 20%, of no vax patients in resuscitation persists: they are on average 75 years old and in 100% of cases they are affected by other pathologies.
A fact that is worrying above all because, from the analysis of the cases present in intensive care, it emerges that the majority of people who do not enjoy vaccine protection are elderly and concomitant patients: precisely those who, on the other hand, are most at risk of serious consequences of Covid.
"After the small aftershock of a week ago, most likely due to a loosening of attention during the Easter holidays, in hospitals we have returned to a phase of substantial stability with an improvement trend - comments Giovanni Migliore, president of Fiaso -. From May 1st. many restrictions have fallen, but it is necessary to continue to be very cautious especially if you live next to fragile subjects. In fact, now, 100% of intensive care patients have relevant comorbidities, this very precise indications: the need for adequate vaccination coverage for fragile subjects , with justice, including the administration of the fourth dose and especially the recovery of unvaccinated with frailty ".
In particular, concludes Migliore, "