The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

Covid: Fiaso, the hospitalization curve reverses after a month (-9.8%)

2022-12-21T09:30:45.177Z


The Covid hospitalization curve is inverted after a month of continuous growth: in the last week it recorded -9.8%. The decrease follows a 4-week increase: +4.6% on December 13th, +15% on December 6th, +19.5% on November 29th and +24% on November 22nd. (HANDLE)


(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 21 - The curve of Covid hospitalizations is inverted after a month of continuous growth: in the last week it recorded a -9.8%.

The decline follows a 4-week increase: +4.6% on 13 December, +15% on 6 December, +19.5% on 29 November and +24% on 22 November.

This is what emerges from the survey of the sentinel hospitals belonging to the Fiaso network on 20 December.

In the week monitored, only hospitalizations in ordinary wards decreased: -10.8%.

While in intensive care there is an increase in patients, +13.2%: of these, 18.6% are not vaccinated and have an average age of 61 years, compared to 73 years of vaccinated subjects in intensive care.


   Analyzing the overall data, only 38% are hospitalized for Covid, or because they have developed the Covid disease with respiratory failure or pneumonia.

And more than 80% of these patients hospitalized for Covid have not received the expected booster dose in the last 180 days, despite being over 60 years of age and frail.


   In hospital wards, 62% of patients with Sars-Cov-2 infection fall into the With Covid category, i.e. patients who have arrived at the hospital for the treatment of other pathologies, are positive for the virus but do not have respiratory and pulmonary symptoms.

A trend that has remained almost constant in recent weeks and has allowed hospitals to treat these patients with Covid in "bubbles", i.e. isolation rooms in ordinary wards, in 72% of cases.


   "At the moment the good news - comments Giovanni Migliore, president of Fiaso - is that although the temperatures have begun to drop there has not been an acceleration of patients with Sars-Cov-2 infection. We will have to wait for the next surveys to understand if the trend will be confirmed and especially in view of Christmas we must not let our guard down".

(HANDLE).


Source: ansa

All life articles on 2022-12-21

You may like

News/Politics 2024-03-26T15:05:44.166Z

Trends 24h

Life/Entertain 2024-03-28T17:17:20.523Z

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.