Covid today Italy, anesthetists: “In intensive 95% not vaccinated”

In the Italian intensive care units, the majority of hospitalized patients, “95%”, are not vaccinated. But “the news now is that fragile vaccinated people are starting to grow, immunized at the beginning of the vaccination campaign, in which a decline in antibody protection is likely”. And that they are put at risk “by the circulation of the virus favored by those who have not undergone the vaccine”. To draw the picture, for Adnkronos Salute, is Antonino Giarratano, new president of the Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care (Siaarti). “Until a few weeks ago – explains Giarratano – in our wards they were almost all unvaccinated, with 5% of fragile vaccinations. In the last two weeks, in various areas of the country, the data of our Siaarti monitoring system have grown fragile vaccinated, with regional differences ranging from 5 to 15%. And we are also beginning to see ‘fragile less fragile’, that is, no longer the diabetic, decompensated, with lung problems and the elderly, whose balance is particularly precarious. Now we also see patients who do not have severe concomitant pathologies in the strict sense, we are talking about the very obese or severe hypertensive, with an age from 48 to 59 years. Patients who have only one of these problems “. To prevent vulnerable people, despite the double vaccination , go to meet hospitalizations, explains Giarratano, it is necessary “to vaccinate a percentage of more than 90% of the population. And it needs to be done on two fronts: with the first dose, for those who have never in order to avoid the circulation of the virus, and with the third dose for the frail, even with only one pathology at risk, who received the vaccination 9-10 months ago, in order to increase the immune response capacity and prevent them from reaching the our intensive care as it is happening “.