Covid hospitalizations growing for the third consecutive week with + 15% in both ordinary and intensive wards. This was revealed by the report of the sentinel hospitals Fiaso (Italian Federation of Healthcare and Hospitals)
dated 6 December.
Above all, patients with Covid are increasing, who
entered to treat other pathologies and positive for the pre-admission swab (+19% for a total of 68% in ordinary wards).
In resuscitation, on the other hand, 84% of hospitalized people are for Covid and in serious condition, 28% are no vax.
The increase in hospitalizations is greater in the South (+26%)
.
"But there are no signs of concern", says the president of Fiaso, Giovanni Migliore.
More in detail, the percentage of growth in hospitalizations in the last week - the new Fiaso report notes - is almost the same both for ordinary wards (+15.8%) and for intensive care (+15.1%).
Patients With Covid have risen by 19% while For Covid, those who have developed the typical Covid disease with respiratory and pulmonary syndromes, undergo an increase of 9%.
And the fact that
68% of patients in isolation were found with Covid at the time of hospitalization
, and conversely
the percentage of patients hospitalized for Covid is 32%
, means, explains Fiaso, that "there is a great circulation of the virus which, however, mostly encounters vaccinated subjects, therefore without causing symptoms and disease with serious consequences".
THE
In intensive care With Covid it is indeed 16% compared to 84% For Covid
.
Furthermore, unlike the 26% increase in all hospitalizations in the South, +18% was recorded in Central Italy and +9% in the North.
"The circulation of the virus is increasing as it normally does in the winter season but at the moment there are no signs of concern: hospitals, after two years of emergency, are now organized to deal with the situation and the number of patients who develop serious consequences is reduced thanks above all to the defenses offered by the vaccine ", comments the president Fiaso, Migliore.
Among those under the age of 18, the growth in patients in the Covid wards is milder than the rest of the population: +4.5%
.
82% of cases are very young children aged between 0 and 4 years.
